Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 20:59:28 -0400 From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 sa.4 Message-ID: <200005080059.UAA90918@whizzo.transsys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 07 May 2000 18:23:45 MDT." <200005080023.SAA74329@harmony.village.org> References: <200005080002.RAA12447@mass.cdrom.com> <200005080023.SAA74329@harmony.village.org>
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> In message <200005080002.RAA12447@mass.cdrom.com> Mike Smith writes: > : > In message <20000508085337.C61488@freebie.lemis.com> Greg Lehey writes: > : > : 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. > : > > : > No. 'r' means 'rewind' while 'nr' means no rewind. The r's should > : > stay. I don't think that FreeBSD ever had a /dev/mt8, but I could be > : > wrong about that. I know I've always used /dev/rst0 or /dev/rsa0 for > : > my backup needs. > : > : That's what I thought too, but I think the historians have us outflanked > : on this one. The only real issue now is POLA. > > On the 4.2BSD vax we had back in school, it was /dev/rmt8 and > /dev/nrmt8. R stood for rewind, and has for a very long time. The > SunOS 3.5 machine behaved exactly the same way. > Yeah, but /dev/mt8 would also rewind. There were block tape devices on the 4.2 system I used to use, probably more for completeness rather than actual utility. /dev/rmt? was the raw version of /dev/mt? louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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