From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 31 22:11: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cage.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 437B037B684; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 22:10:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by cage.simianscience.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f116Aii93178; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 01:10:44 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from chimp (fcage [192.168.0.2]) by cage.simianscience.com (8.11.1/8.11.1av) with ESMTP id f116Ace93170; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 01:10:39 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20010201010331.02374eb0@marble.sentex.net> X-Sender: mdtancsa@marble.sentex.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 01:10:38 -0500 To: John Reynolds~ From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: /dev/ast0 ? Cc: stable@freebsd.org, sos@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <14968.37355.936215.987185@hip186.ch.intel.com> References: <5.0.1.4.0.20010131170922.02cdeec0@marble.sentex.ca> <5.0.1.4.0.20010131170922.02cdeec0@marble.sentex.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-10 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 03:30 PM 1/31/2001 -0700, John Reynolds~ wrote: >dolphin [/dev]<102>% sh MAKEDEV ast0 >dolphin [/dev]<103>% ll *ast* >crw-r----- 1 root operator 119, 1 Jan 31 15:27 nrast0 >crw-r----- 1 root operator 119, 0 Jan 31 15:27 rast0 > >They're there ... just don't start with "ast". You'll probably want "nrast0" >for your dump device as that's the non-rewinding version. > >Now, don't ask me why on the SCSI side of the fence I have an "sa0" device >file to go along with my nrsa0, ersa0, rsa0, etc. nodes. But, your files >should be there ..... Thanks! You know I could have swore I tried that :-( I think I got fixated on the man page which states FILES /dev/ad* ATA disk device nodes /dev/acd* ATAPI CD-ROM device nodes /dev/afd* ATAPI floppy drive device nodes /dev/ast* ATAPI tape drive device nodes Perhaps an update to the manpage to clarify ? /dev/ast* ATAPI tape drive device nodes /dev/rast* ATAPI tape drive device nodes -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Network Administration, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message