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From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 sa.4
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On Sunday,  7 May 2000 at 14:47:07 -0700, Mike Smith wrote:
> msmith      2000/05/07 14:47:07 PDT
>
>   Modified files:
>     share/man/man4       sa.4
>   Log:
>   For tape devices, 'r' means REWIND, not RAW.

So /dev/nrsa0 is the no rewind rewind drive?

From 4.4BSD:

FILES
     /dev/rmt*  Raw magnetic tape interface

There used to be a block interface for the 'mt' driver, so the drives
got names like /dev/mt8 and /dev/rmt8.  I think we need to get rid of
the 'r', like we did with disks.

Greg
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