/dev/st0?

What are the minor numbers?

rna

On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, der.hans wrote:

> I thought the different devices controlled what level of hardware
> compression was being involved.
>
> /dev/st0 would be none or default
> /dev/st0l would be level 1
> /dev/st0m would be level 2
> /dev/st0a would be level 3
>
> Or something like that. Driver has to support it and all that. Looks like
> I was wrong. It seems to me that the different devices was one way of
> controlling hardware compression under AIX, but I could be wrong.
>
> I need to be able to find out what settings my tape drive has and then be
> able to change them :). I know how to do that in AIX, but that doesn't
> help me here.
>
> Turns out that there is a closed source util from the drive
> manufacturer. It isn't working right for me and I'd prefer to have a
> generic solution regarding tape drives in general.
>
> danke,
>
> der.hans
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