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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

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