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To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>
Subject: Re: Undocumented tape devices in pax(1) 
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Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 15:57:18 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <20000508155521.A85722@panzer.kdm.org> "Kenneth D. Merry" writes:
: 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

OK.

Warner


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