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> $ ls -l /dev/st0* > crw-rw-rw- 1 root tape 9, 0 2004-09-18 07:51 /dev/st0 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root tape 9, 96 2004-09-18 07:51 /dev/st0a > crw-rw-rw- 1 root tape 9, 32 2004-09-18 07:51 /dev/st0l > crw-rw-rw- 1 root tape 9, 64 2004-09-18 07:51 /dev/st0m > > What differentiates st0 from a,l,m? > What does writing or reading to a tape using a,l,m signify? By default, they're all the same. You can tweak the driver parameters, however, to cause the different devices to use different densities and blocking modes. See mt(1) and Documentation/scsi/st.txt. jon Jonathan Corbet Executive editor, LWN.net corbet@lwn.net - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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