Re: scsi tape devices?
On Tue, 26 May 1998 servis@purdue.edu wrote:
> 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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I think these are for devices with multiple recording density. I have not
experience with these devices under LINUX, but under ULTRIX they are used
to select the recording density on QIC tape : l = low, m : medium, h :
high.
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