HP C1537A Technical Reference Manual page 17

Argument Description
Specifies Berkeley mode; absence of this parameter indicates AT&T mode.
[-u]
Berkeley and AT&T modes differ in their read-only close behavior:
n
n
In most cases, Berkeley mode should be used.
Specifies the path of the device file, where:
/dev/rmt/X<name>
In Berkeley mode, the tape position will remain unchanged by a device
close operation.
In AT&T mode, a device close operation will cause the tape to be
repositioned just after the next tape filemark (the start of the next file).
Specifies the tape device identifier. Use the next available
X
identifier. You can examine the contents of
command to determine which identifiers have already been used.
Specifies the short name (in HP-UX 9.x-style) of the device file:
<name>
No rewind, compression disabled, Berkeley-mode device
mnb
No rewind, compression disabled, Berkeley-mode device
hnb
No rewind, compression disabled, Berkeley-mode device
mnb
No rewind, compression enabled, Berkeley-mode device
hnb
See the man page (
man 1m mksf
The section covers the SCSI tape driver options. The man page
stape
describes the long filenames used in HP-UX 10.x and later.
mt
Example:
To create a device file with the following characteristics:
A hardware address specified by instance 5 (
n
No rewind ( )
n
-n
Berkeley mode tape positioning on close (
n
A filename of , where
n
4mnb
)
4mnb
You would execute the following:
% /sbin/mksf -d stape -I 4 -n -u /dev/rmt/4mnb
You can check that the appropriate device file was created using the
command as follows:
% /sbin/lssf /dev/rmt/4mnb
HP Servers and Workstations — HP-UX 10.20 and 11.x
/dev/rmt
) for other options of the
)
-I 5
)
-u
is the tape device identifier (
4
using the
ls
command.
mksf
man 7
/dev/rmt/
lssf
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