Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 14:53:27 -0400 From: "Morse, Richard E." <REMORSE@PARTNERS.ORG> To: "'Kasper (swebase)'" <kasper@swebase.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Tape SCSI drive Message-ID: <375F68784081D511908A00508BE3BB1701EF1BDC@phsexch22.mgh.harvard.edu>
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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
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