Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 13:05:46 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Undocumented tape devices in pax(1) Message-ID: <200005091905.NAA87313@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 May 2000 20:54:50 %2B1000." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005091952590.7612-100000@besplex.bde.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005091952590.7612-100000@besplex.bde.org>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005091952590.7612-100000@besplex.bde.org> Bruce Evans writes: : On Mon, 8 May 2000, Warner Losh wrote: : : > Leaving aside the 'r' question for the moment... : > : > Should that be sa or ast? sa is the scsi device for any tape device : > (formerly st or mt), while ast is for ide/atapi based tape drives. : : It should be ssa and asa, of course :-). :-) We should at least add a referecne to ast. However, there is no ast man page. : > The wt and wst devices referenced in our man pages are just plain : > bogus. I think we've killed all ft references in the tree... : : No, wst is still used by pc98, and wt is the Wangtek tape driver. OK. : wst and ast are weird names. Doesn't the "s" in them stand for "SCSI" : and not "streaming", so wst is the so-called-Winchester (non-SCSI) SCSI : tape driver, etc? For completeness, we should have had nrrrwsst (the : non-rewinding rewinding raw so-called-Winchester streaming SCSI tape : driver) ;-). Seriously, why aren't there "n" and "e" forms of ast? IIRC, The s in st is streaming. Since there was only one streaming tape driver, it wasn't called sst and the name came over from SunOS (but there may be a more direct path via the BSD trees). However, this argument is weak because sd was the scsi disk and not the streaming disk. I don't know why there aren't n forms. There are on my system, but I crated the devices by hand based on the st entries that I had when I was beta testing Soren's wst driver (later recreated them for the ast driver). Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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