rst0 vs. rst8

Marty Olevitch marty at wuphys.wustl.edu
Wed Mar 27 02:00:00 AEST 1991


What's the difference in using /dev/rst0 versus using /dev/rst8?  The
device is an exabyte 8mm cartridge tape drive, Sparcstation 1+, SunOS 4.1.
We have some programs that work fine using 0, but fail after reading okay
for a while using 8.

Marty Olevitch				Internet: marty at wuphys.wustl.edu



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