Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 24 Dec 2005 17:57:31 -0500 (EST) | From | Justin Piszcz <> | Subject | Re: Tape Drive Question (2.6.14.4) |
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Ahhh, ok thanks!
Justin.
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>> $ 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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