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From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.periphs
Subject: Re: magtape device naming conventions
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Date: Wed, 17-Sep-86 20:19:02 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 17 20:19:02 1986
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In article <355@sputnik.fluke.UUCP> norm@fluke.UUCP (Norm Seethoff) writes:
>We are wrestling with a common magtape device naming scheme which can be
>used across all of our UN*X systems, independent of vendor. ...
>
>We are presently considering:
>                                               Device Name
>              Function
>                                   Rewind On Close   No Rewind On Close
>
>              1600  bpi buffered   /dev/mt1600       /dev/nmt1600
>              1600  bpi raw        /dev/rmt1600      /dev/nrmt1600
>              6250  bpi buffered   /dev/mt6250       /dev/nmt6250
>              6250  bpi raw        /dev/rmt6250      /dev/nrmt6250

Be sure to allow for multiple tape drives.  The scheme we use is
/dev/[n][r]mt{0,1,2}.{800,1600,6250}

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