cartridge tape designators

Miles O'Neal stiatl!meo at gatech.edu
Thu Jul 6 02:40:13 AEST 1989


In article <4107 at kalliope.rice.edu> eli at chipcom.chipcom.com writes:
| X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 49, message 1 of 11
| 
| what is the difference between /dev/rst0 and /dev/rst8
| and likewise between           /dev/nrst0 and /dev/nrst8

The difference is the tape format. I don't remember the exact definitions,
but basically, the 0 devices are for 45MB tape formats, and the 8 devices
use the 60MB formats. They aren't interchangeable.

Miles



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