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- From: det@hawkmoon.mn.org (Derek Terveer)
- Subject: Re: Exabyte 8500 on Sun IPX stores only 2GB!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.180850.19256@hawkmoon.mn.org>
- Organization: Demi-Public System (One of the Eternal Champions); Eagan, MN, 55123-2507, USA
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 18:08:50 GMT
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- Guy Harris (guy@Auspex.COM) wrote:
- : (In Auspex releases 1.4 and later, we don't use that crappy old Bell
- : Labs naming convention for tape densities, as we can really have a tape
- : in slot 8, and "/dev/rast8" should be that tape; instead, "/dev/rastN" is
- : the drive in slot N in high-density mode, and "/dev/rastNlo" is the
- : drive in slot N in low-density mode, so you're more likely to get
- : high-density mode by default than you are with the
- : "/dev/rst0"/"/dev/rst8" convention, which may explain why he had better
- : luck on his Auspex - although, given that current releases don't have
- : the 4.1.2 code in question, I'd be surprised if he got >2GB on a tape on
- : an Auspex.)
-
- I would be really suprised (and impressed in a negative way) if sun had
- hardcoded the filenames into the density selecting code. I would
- presume that it is based on the minor number, in which case, there
- should be nothing to prevent someone from simply adding whatever names
- they choose for their tape drives; including the /dev/rast0 or
- /dev/rast0lo names, for example.
-
- Of course, it probably won't affect the way the tape is written... (:-)
-
- derek
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