From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 3 6:32:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [212.227.14.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A830A37B423 for ; Sun, 3 Sep 2000 06:32:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ganerc.mips.inka.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with local-bsmtp id 13VZt4-00060T-04; Sun, 3 Sep 2000 15:32:42 +0200 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by ganerc.mips.inka.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e83DJrK31915 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 3 Sep 2000 15:19:53 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: tape devices Date: 3 Sep 2000 15:19:52 +0200 Message-ID: <8otj5o$v4t$1@ganerc.mips.inka.de> References: <39B1CFF9.9274AC8A@heitec.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bernd Luevelsmeyer wrote: > I've been taking tape backups for quite some time now, and everything is > working fine, but: I never found out what the devices > *sa0.0 > *sa0.1 > *sa0.2 > *sa0.3 > are good for. Take a look at the output of "mt stat". There will four "available modes". The .[0-3] devices correspond to those modes. Now, what I have not seen yet, is for those four modes to be actually different... -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message