Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 07:57:14 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: bartol@salk.edu, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Density codes for Exabyte 8505XL Message-ID: <199703051357.HAA15445@horton.iaces.com> 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.
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