RH Dat tape drive device files

[Mark Ellis]

I have a seagate on a linux box -- I am coming from an hp-ux environment and need to know what the device files mean:
nosst0
nosst0l
nst0
nst0l
osst0
osst0l
st0
st0l
nosst0a
nosst0m
nst0a
nst0m
osst0a
osst0m
st0a
st0m

I want to be able to find (and then link substitue names) for the hp-ux "yy, ny, yn, etc...".

I can't find good documentation out there that explains them all...

Thank you!

[Steven E. Protter]

You are trying to make your backup scripts work on both platforms?

Admirable but maybe not a good idea.

Info:

http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/rgooch/linux/docs/devfs.html

http://meteora.ucsd.edu/~pierce/linux_tape.html

http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-07/guru_01.html

http://ieee.uow.edu.au/documents/Unix_Guide/Unix_Guide/node65.html

These will get you going.

SEP

[Mark Ellis]

Good reading - thanks. Yes - that is exactly what I am trying to do - port the backup scripts.

None of those links quite answered any of those... I see the autorewind, but what about a device that will not-rewind-first, then rewind-after-finished (ny) ??

[Stuart Browne]

Nup, no standard devices will do that.

You need the 'mt' command for that. ;)