Quick very general question: How does one determine when it's appropriate to refer to one's tape drive in the config files as /dev/nst0 or /dev/st0? Drive is a VXA-2 in a VXA PacketLoader 1x10 1U autochanger, and Exabyte's diags identify the autochanger as /dev/sg4 and the drive as /dev/sg3, but read on the list earlier that tape drives should be addressed as streaming tape devices rather than SCSI generic devices.
I've got the following streaming tape device files in the server, and of them, the drive seems to respond well to /dev/nst0 as well as to /dev/st0, but which is best to use for this drive? crw-rw-rw- 1 bacula bacula 9, 128 Sep 26 10:27 /dev/nst0 crw-rw-rw- 1 bacula bacula 9, 224 Sep 26 10:27 /dev/nst0a crw-rw-rw- 1 bacula bacula 9, 160 Sep 26 10:27 /dev/nst0l crw-rw-rw- 1 bacula bacula 9, 192 Sep 26 10:27 /dev/nst0m crw-rw---- 1 root disk 9, 0 Sep 26 10:27 /dev/st0 crw-rw---- 1 root disk 9, 96 Sep 26 10:27 /dev/st0a crw-rw---- 1 root disk 9, 32 Sep 26 10:27 /dev/st0l crw-rw---- 1 root disk 9, 64 Sep 26 10:27 /dev/st0m John J. Felczak Build & Integration Manager Siderean Software, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
