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Re: hardware questions - tar to dat drive and ati rage 2c card under x

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Brian Edmonds (brian@gweep.bc.ca)
Mon, 18 Jan 1999 14:39:14 -0800

>>>>> "C" == Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net> writes:
> I do have a question about the device name, though: do you really use
> st0 (the block device) rather than rst0 (the character device) for
> this stuff?

Linux is a tad odd in this respect, in that it does not provide any
block devices for tapes, they're all character devices. It also does
not provide any character devices for disks either, they're all block.
There have been some complaints about this in the past because it's
different, but I've never heard of any real problems.

Doubtless there are kernel patches floating around somewhere to do the
other half, but I don't think they're in the standard kernel. This is
in 2.0, I don't know if it may have changed for 2.2.

Brian.

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