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3.4 Tapes
3.4.1 SunOS 4.1.X
The tape devices are generally referenced as the raw device, either rst, rxt, or rmt devices. For SCSI drives the tape device should have a target ID of either 4 or 5, /dev/rst0 or /dev/rst1, respectively. If the drive can handle more than one density then adding 8 to the device number should access the higher density, e.g. /dev/rst8 and /dev/rst9, respectively. You access the no-rewind device by prepending the device name with an "n", e.g. /dev/nrst0 and /dev/nrst1, respectively.
Unix System Administration - 8 AUG 1996
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