Re: Tape devices

2002-01-21 Thread Paul Mackinney
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

Re: Tape devices

2002-01-14 Thread Noah Meyerhans
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

Tape devices

2002-01-14 Thread George Karaolides
Hi, 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? mymachine:~# ls -l /dev/*st0* crw-rw1 root tape 9, 128 Aug 3 10:11 /dev

Re: scsi tape devices?

1998-05-27 Thread Jean-Luc Anthoine
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

scsi tape devices?

1998-05-26 Thread servis
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 ro

problem using SCSI tape devices

1997-12-30 Thread Tim Ferrell
I have just switched from RedHat 4.2 (gee, it seems I preface all my mail to this list with that...) and am having a problem accessing my tape drive (a Conner DDS-2 SCSI drive) The drive responds to the mt commands I have issued (ie, mt tell, mt datcompression, mt rewind, etc) but I have been unab