On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Davidson, Brian wrote:

> Can anyone tell me the difference between the following no-rewind tape
> devices on Linux? I can't seem to find any info anywhere.
>
> /dev/nst0
> /dev/nst0a
> /dev/nst0l
> /dev/nst0m

I think the -l and -m notations instruct the system to send information in
low and medium compressed formats, respectively. I don't know what the -a
means.

- Eric


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