Re: [Bacula-users] Linux scsi tape driver modes

2007-11-06 Thread John Huttley
Thanks to Arno and Michel for this. One more thing not to worry about! Regards, john Arno Lehmann wrote: Hi, 06.11.2007 22:39,, John Huttley wrote:: Hi folks, I'm trying to get my head around the details of tape devices, as in /dev/st0. I had thought that for each physical device, two n

Re: [Bacula-users] Linux scsi tape driver modes

2007-11-06 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 06.11.2007 22:39,, John Huttley wrote:: > Hi folks, > I'm trying to get my head around the details of tape devices, as in > /dev/st0. > I had thought that for each physical device, two nodes were created > /dev/st0 and /dev/nst0. > The latter does not rewind when closed, thats the one used

Re: [Bacula-users] Linux scsi tape driver modes

2007-11-06 Thread Michel Meyers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Huttley wrote: > Hi folks, > I'm trying to get my head around the details of tape devices, as in > /dev/st0. > I had thought that for each physical device, two nodes were created > /dev/st0 and /dev/nst0. > The latter does not rewind when clos

[Bacula-users] Linux scsi tape driver modes

2007-11-06 Thread John Huttley
Hi folks, I'm trying to get my head around the details of tape devices, as in /dev/st0. I had thought that for each physical device, two nodes were created /dev/st0 and /dev/nst0. The latter does not rewind when closed, thats the one used with bacula. Untrue! its creates 8 modes. For each on s