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From: mac@mrk.ardent.com (Michael McNamara)
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Subject: Re: The Moderator Always Gets the Last Word
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Date: 3 Feb 89 09:21:37 GMT
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Since all these people are nit picking at wnl's comments, I'll nit at his
detractors comments...

In article <8901161947.AA03374@flash.srs.com> srs!matt@uhura.cc.rochester.edu writes:
> Although I wouldn't go so far as John Gilmore, I too have been a bit
> disgruntled with wnl's comments as of late.  So I decided to look through
> the v7 issues to find comments that I knew to be wrong or at the very
> least misleading....
  ...
> 	3) /dev/rmt0 vs. /dev/rmt8.  Both CAN hold about the same amount of
> 	   data, it's just that the older QIC-11 drives that Sun sold were
> 	   4-track and thus DID hold less data than the QIC-11 (/dev/rmt0)
> 	   and QIC-24 (/dev/nrm8) 9-track drives that Sun sells now.

Sorry, Matt, but you are *very* wrong.  /dev/rmt0 holds about 1/4 as much
data as /dev/rmt8.  rmt0 refers 1600 BPI on the nine track reel to reel
tape drive, and rmt8 to 6250 BPI on that same drive. 

/dev/rst? is the SCSI QIC-11/24 drive.

>From the mt man page : (so few people seem to have these things these days
:-)

FILES
     /dev/rmt* Raw magnetic tape interface
     /dev/rar* Raw Archive cartridge tape interface
     /dev/rst* Raw SCSI tape interface
     /dev/rxt* Raw Xylogics tape interface

Just remember, when you critique someone else, run your mail through
spell(1)!!!

Michael McNamara 
  mac@ardent.com

[[ Thank you.  I had missed that.  Just proves that none of use, not
moderators nor even their critics, are perfect.  --wnl ]]