The Moderator Always Gets the Last Word
Michael McNamara
mac at mrk.ardent.com
Fri Feb 3 19:21:37 AEST 1989
Since all these people are nit picking at wnl's comments, I'll nit at his
detractors comments...
In article <8901161947.AA03374 at flash.srs.com> srs!matt at uhura.cc.rochester.edu writes:
> Although I wouldn't go so far as John Gilmore, I too have been a bit
> disgruntled with wnl's comments as of late. So I decided to look through
> the v7 issues to find comments that I knew to be wrong or at the very
> least misleading....
...
> 3) /dev/rmt0 vs. /dev/rmt8. Both CAN hold about the same amount of
> data, it's just that the older QIC-11 drives that Sun sold were
> 4-track and thus DID hold less data than the QIC-11 (/dev/rmt0)
> and QIC-24 (/dev/nrm8) 9-track drives that Sun sells now.
Sorry, Matt, but you are *very* wrong. /dev/rmt0 holds about 1/4 as much
data as /dev/rmt8. rmt0 refers 1600 BPI on the nine track reel to reel
tape drive, and rmt8 to 6250 BPI on that same drive.
/dev/rst? is the SCSI QIC-11/24 drive.
>From the mt man page : (so few people seem to have these things these days
:-)
FILES
/dev/rmt* Raw magnetic tape interface
/dev/rar* Raw Archive cartridge tape interface
/dev/rst* Raw SCSI tape interface
/dev/rxt* Raw Xylogics tape interface
Just remember, when you critique someone else, run your mail through
spell(1)!!!
Michael McNamara
mac at ardent.com
[[ Thank you. I had missed that. Just proves that none of use, not
moderators nor even their critics, are perfect. --wnl ]]
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