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Re: missing /dev/devices -- specifically /dev/rst0



> [...] /dev/rst0 is still missing from debian 0.91.

Linux doesn't have "raw" tape devices, only buffered ones (this
applies to disks as well as tapes).

The tape devices should therefore be called /dev/[n]st* and
/dev/[n]mt*, and there should be no corresponding /dev/r* devices.

C.f. /dev/sda (which exists) vs. /dev/rsda (which doesn't, but would
on other Unices - usually under a name like /dev/rsd0c).

Ian.


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