From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 21 11:53:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from PHSEXCHICI2.Partners.org (phsexchici2.partners.org [170.223.254.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4558237B401 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 11:53:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by phsexchici2.partners.org with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 14:53:29 -0400 Message-ID: <375F68784081D511908A00508BE3BB1701EF1BDC@phsexch22.mgh.harvard.edu> From: "Morse, Richard E." To: "'Kasper (swebase)'" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Tape SCSI drive Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 14:53:27 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kasper (swebase) [mailto:kasper@swebase.com] wrote: > My SCSI tape drive is named sa0. > > But what is > > rsa0 This is the 'raw' tape device -- that is, a character device, not a block device > nrsa0 This is the non-rewinding raw tape device -- it's a character device, and when you close a connection to it, it won't automatically rewind the tape. There's probably also a nsa0, which is a non-rewinding block device... HTH, Ricky To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message