topic Re: devices in Operating System - Linux

devices

Mark Ellis — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 10:34:24 GMT

Is there a RH equivelant to HP-UX's prtconf?

Re: devices

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 10:41:35 GMT

I'm not sure there is.

ll the devices in the /dev directory.

Try the GUI hardware browser.

SEP

Re: devices

Mark Ellis — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 10:44:44 GMT

I am trying to find out the device file name of my tape drive...

Re: devices

Martin P.J. Zinser — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 10:58:47 GMT

Hello Mark,

dmesg | grep -i tape

If it is a SCSI tape most probably
/dev/(n)st0 is a good start.

Greetings, Martin

Re: devices

Roberto Polli — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 11:02:59 GMT

browse files in
/proc/scsi
/proc/driver
and
/proc/devices

If kernel modules are load (eg
#modprobe st
) it should work.

Peace, R>

Re: devices

Martin P.J. Zinser — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 12:52:20 GMT

Btw, the GUI hardware browser SEP referred to
is invoked using the hwbrowser command. This does show the devices too.

Greetings, Martin

Re: devices

Mark Ellis — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 12:55:32 GMT

Ok - so I can see my DAT drive is at st0, but what about the other options? Like "yn", "ny", ... those types of settings I don't see an option for (?)

Re: devices

Martin P.J. Zinser — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 13:20:20 GMT

Hello Mark,

can you please elaborate a bit more on what information exactly you expect the "yn", "ny" to give you? I am sure it can be found in Linux if you tell us what you look for :-)

Greetings, Martin

Re: devices

Mark Ellis — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 13:23:38 GMT

yn= yes to rewind on open and no to rewind on close

Re: devices

Jeroen Peereboom — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 13:44:43 GMT

Well,

there is an nst0 devicename for 'norewind'.

JP

Re: devices

Mark Ellis — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 13:57:27 GMT

Can you explain to me what the others are? nost0, nst0, nst0l, osst0... st0a, st0l, st0m?

Thanks!

Re: devices

Martin P.J. Zinser — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 15:02:10 GMT

Hi,

the *ost* devices are special cases for tapes made by OnStream (QIC etc.)

The rest:

/dev/[n]stnx n=no rewind st
/dev/nst0m none default density
l=low density
m=medium density
a=autoselect density

It seems the exact way these modes are mapped can be influeende via /etc/stinit.def (man stinit for further information).

Greetings, Martin