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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: magtape device naming conventions
Message-ID: <4009@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 22-Sep-86 22:23:12 EDT
Article-I.D.: brl-smok.4009
Posted: Mon Sep 22 22:23:12 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 24-Sep-86 07:07:26 EDT
References: <3957@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <3957@brl-smoke.ARPA> Barry Shein <bzs@bu-cs.bu.EDU> writes:
>	/dev/mt/1600r0		# rewind unit 0
>	/dev/mt/6250n0		# no rewind unit 0
>	/dev/rmt/1600r1		# rewind, raw, unit 1

Note that this is also amenable to
implementing a special "magtape file system"
via the filesystem switch (present in V8 & SVR3),
as opposed to trying to encode all this stuff
in minor device numbers..