Re: Tape devices

[Paul Mackinney <paul@mackinney.net>]

Noah Meyerhans declaimed:
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 06:45:59PM +0200, George Karaolides wrote:
> > 
> > Can somebody tell me what the various tape devices are?  I know that
> > /dev/st0 is the first SCSI tape drive and /dev/nst0 is the non-rewinding
> > version of this, but what are /dev/(st|nst)0a, -l and -m?
> 
> These are actually documented in the st(4) man page (specifically in the
> 3rd paragraph).  It's in the manpages package.
> 
> noah
Also check out the SCSI 2.4 HowTo...

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