From: s.telford@ed.ac.uk (Scott Telford) Subject: Re: /dev/tty00 vs /dev/cua00 and other device confusions Date: 3 May 1993 12:29:36 GMT
In article <pdhC6BC01.J4G@netcom.com>, pdh@netcom.com (P D H) writes:
> There is also the confusion of where a SCSI QIC tape will be found.
> Major 9 (/dev/st0...) and major 12 (/dev/rmt16...) seem to be at odds
> here if the tape is SCSI. An explanation that might resolve this,
> which is neither included nor known to be the case, would be that major
> 12 is for tapes connected via a QIC-02 interface instead of SCSI.
All SCSI tapes should be major 9.
Also, if we're following conventions, the SCSI tape device should be
"rst" not "st", since it's a character device. Which reminds me:
anybody considered addding "rhd"/"rsd" raw disk devices?
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