scsi tape devices?

[servis@purdue.edu]

Can someone tell me what the *a, *l, and *m devices are/do for for my
scsi tape drive?  The Linux Device List was not very enlighting.

   0 crw-rw----   1 root     disk       9, 128 May 28  1997 /dev/nst0
   0 crw-rw----   1 root     disk       9, 224 May 28  1997 /dev/nst0a
   0 crw-rw----   1 root     disk       9, 160 May 28  1997 /dev/nst0l
   0 crw-rw----   1 root     disk       9, 192 May 28  1997 /dev/nst0m
   0 crw-rw----   1 root     disk       9,   0 May 28  1997 /dev/st0
   0 crw-rw----   1 root     disk       9,  96 May 28  1997 /dev/st0a
   0 crw-rw----   1 root     disk       9,  32 May 28  1997 /dev/st0l
   0 crw-rw----   1 root     disk       9,  64 May 28  1997 /dev/st0m

Thanks,
 
Brian 



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