From: pdh@netcom.com (P D H) Subject: Re: /dev/tty00 vs /dev/cua00 and other device confusions Date: Mon, 3 May 1993 23:23:16 GMT
s.telford@ed.ac.uk (Scott Telford) writes:
>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?
Why is it a character device?
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