On Wednesday 12 June 2002 04:25, Christoph Scheeder wrote: >Hi, >All your writing is all correct, but close is no cigar... ;-) >the thing i was talking about is not the devicename, it is the name >of the kernel-module that provides the driver-routines for the devices >/dev/(n)st0 .... /dev/(n)stx. >this file lives in a directory called (for 2.4.x kernels) >/lib/modules/kernelversion/kernel/drivers/scsi >and its compülete name is "st.o". >This is a feature of linux-kernel, you can load/unload >complete lowlevel drivers to/from kernel at runtime. >Christoph > >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Tuesday 11 June 2002 13:02, Christoph Scheeder wrote: >>>Hi, >>>sorry that was my fault, >>>the module for the scsi-tape support is called "st" >>>Christoph >> >> Under linux, /dev/st(number) is a rewinding device, eg it rewinds >> the tape when the path is closed. This is a very bad situation for >> most backup progs in general because it must be able top assume the >> tape is still in the same position it left it in when it closed the >> last file/path it was writing. >> >> So you should be using the /dev/nst(number) descriptor as it doesn't >> do an automatic rewind as it closes the path. Amanda will rewind >> the tape by herself when she needs it rewound.
You are of course correct, I was confusing device with driver module, my bad, and my apologies. -- Cheers, Gene
