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From: stiatl!meo@gatech.edu (Miles O'Neal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: cartridge tape designators
Keywords: SunOS
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Date: 5 Jul 89 16:40:13 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 70, message 1 of 15

In article <4107@kalliope.rice.edu> eli@chipcom.chipcom.com writes:
| X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 49, message 1 of 11
| 
| what is the difference between /dev/rst0 and /dev/rst8
| and likewise between           /dev/nrst0 and /dev/nrst8

The difference is the tape format. I don't remember the exact definitions,
but basically, the 0 devices are for 45MB tape formats, and the 8 devices
use the 60MB formats. They aren't interchangeable.

Miles