Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 08:53:38 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 sa.4 Message-ID: <20000508085337.C61488@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200005072147.OAA37309@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200005072147.OAA37309@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Sunday, 7 May 2000 at 14:47:07 -0700, Mike Smith wrote:
> msmith 2000/05/07 14:47:07 PDT
>
> Modified files:
> share/man/man4 sa.4
> Log:
> For tape devices, 'r' means REWIND, not RAW.
So /dev/nrsa0 is the no rewind rewind drive?
From 4.4BSD:
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.
Greg
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