On Tue, 26 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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. |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Jean-Luc ANTHOINE [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | I.U.T. de Belfort, Departement Informatique, BP 527, F-90016 BELFORT CEDEX | | Phone : (33) 03 84 58 77 76 Fax : (33) 03 84 58 77 81 | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
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