Identifying Device Nodes - Quantum DAT 160 Reference

Column Text Format
Sixth
Mmm DD
YYYY
column
Seventh (n)stna
column,
represents
n
section
a numeric
heading
character;
represents
a
an alpha
character.
In the
example:
(n)st0*
Identifying Device
Nodes
Accessing Devices Using /dev/st* Device Nodes
Installing a DLT, SDLT, VS, LTO, or DAT Tape Drive Into a Linux Operating System
Description
Date. Not applicable.
Device Node Description. This is also the actual file name.
identifies the device node as either auto-rewind or no-rewind as
(n)st
follows:
• identifies the device node as auto-rewind. See
st
Device Nodes on page 16 for more information.
• identifies the device node as no-rewind. See
nst
Device Nodes on page 16 for more information.
n (the numeric character)
device; " " identifies the second device; "
1
so forth. See

Identifying Device Nodes

a (the alpha character)
mode 1.) See Identifying Device Modes
Linux supports up to 32 tape devices [(n)st0* through (n)st31*). Device nodes
0
are numbered consecutively beginning with
Each operating system presets a certain number of device nodes as follows.
You may add more manually if needed (up to 32 total). The following table
shows two examples:
Operating System
RHEL3
SuSE9
identifies the tape device. "
" identifies the third device, and
2
for more information.
identifies the mode. (No alpha character means
for a list of modes.
0
Preset Device Nodes
(n)st0* through (n)st31*
(n)st0* through (n)st7*
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January 2006
Creating Auto-Rewind
Creating No-Rewind
" identifies the first
0
.
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