Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews2!bnrgate!brchh104!brchs1!bnr.ca!rice.edu!sun-spots-request From: PUB%MANVAX.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Ed Geraghty - Pub files Manager) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Tape drive devices /dev/rst* Keywords: Miscellaneous Message-ID: <2878@brchh104.bnr.ca> Date: 23 May 91 18:47:00 GMT Sender: news@brchh104.bnr.ca Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 6 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Original-Date: Sat, 4 May 91 00:21 EDT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 102, message 10 X-Note: Submissions: sun-spots@rice.edu, Admin: sun-spots-request@rice.edu I am using a Sun-4/370 with an internal 1/4" tape 150Meg tape drive. I am trying to figure out which the numbers after the /dev/rst mean. (e.g. /dev/rst0 /dev/rst8 etc...) can any one tell me what they mean or tell me where in the manual set I can find them. I have looked for them ang have not been successful.