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From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com>
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Subject: Re: Density codes for Exabyte 8505XL
To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 07:57:14 -0600 (CST)
Cc: bartol@salk.edu, questions@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970304171615.22395C-100000@localhost> from Doug White at "Mar 4, 97 05:20:02 pm"
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In a previous message, Doug White said:
> On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Paul T. Root wrote:
> 
> > Doug, get amanda, its wonderful.
> 
> I tried that.  It's a huge hulking mess that did not fit well with our
> patchy backup logic.  The backup server runs Win95 most of the time, so it
> must be rebooted to FreeBSD to work.  And it took us forever to convice
> the systems to talk to one another -- I don't want to break something
> that's finally working :)

Yep, if it's not broke, don't fix it.


> > Oh, looking in /dev/MAKEDEV, and /dev you'll see /dev/rst0.[0123]. Maybe that's
> > it. The MAKEDEV calls it rst${unit}.${mode}. I'd bet that that's what
> > you want.
> 
> > Do a man st. Hopefully, that will have ethe answer your looking for.
> 
> If you _do_ a man st, you'll find the following in the FILES section:
> 
>      /dev/rst0.0                Mode 0, rewind on close
>      /dev/nrst0.2               Mode 2, No rewind on close
>      /dev/erst0.3               Mode 3, Eject on close (if capable)
> 
> So I think we need to look to a different avenue here...

Looks like. I didn't read the man page (since it wasn't my problem). 
I saw that stuff in MAKEDEV and scsitape.h.