From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 8 14:55:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.kdm.org (panzer.kdm.org [216.160.178.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3303837B551; Mon, 8 May 2000 14:55:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@panzer.kdm.org) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id PAA85765; Mon, 8 May 2000 15:55:21 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ken) Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 15:55:21 -0600 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" To: Warner Losh Cc: mjacob@feral.com, Christian Weisgerber , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, "David O'Brien" Subject: Re: Undocumented tape devices in pax(1) Message-ID: <20000508155521.A85722@panzer.kdm.org> References: <200005082142.PAA80155@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200005082142.PAA80155@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Mon, May 08, 2000 at 03:42:01PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 15:42:01 -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message Matthew Jacob writes: > : Oh, and in the updating of this, don't forget the FreeBSD usage of .ctl for > : tape devices- as far as I know this is the only *BSD that has this. > > Which devices use .ctl? sa and ast don't seem to use them now (at the > very least they aren't created by MAKEDEV by default). The sa driver does use the control nodes, whether or not they're actually created by MAKEDEV. (Look in saopen().) It's useful to be able to get status on your tape drive while a backup is going on via the control node, e.g.: mt -f /dev/rsa0.ctl status Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message