Re: dev for SCSI tape

[Lawrence <ychim@ForeverMail.com>]

Oliver Elphick wrote:
> 
> Lawrence wrote:
>   >What is the likely device name in the /dev directory for a SCSI tape
>   >drive? is it /dev/tape?  Anyone using the Seagate Travan SCSI backup?
> 
> SCSI tape drives are:
> crw-rw-rw-   2 root     root       9,   0 Feb 19  1997 /dev/st0
> crw-rw-rw-   1 root     root       9,  96 Feb 19  1997 /dev/st0a
> crw-rw-rw-   1 root     root       9,  32 Feb 19  1997 /dev/st0l
> crw-rw-rw-   1 root     root       9,  64 Feb 19  1997 /dev/st0m
> 
> If you have more than one you can create /dev/st1 and so on
> 
> The SCSI tapes are assigned to st[0-9] in the order that they are recognised
> at boot time.

What is the meaning of suffix {a,l,m}?

Lawrence


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