If you head to quantum.com and do a seatch for 'linux book' they have a pdf document that explains some of that.
Chris ------ Original Message ------ Received: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:28:43 PM MDT From: Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: sdlt220 on Fedora Core 4 > On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 05:39:51PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: > > Jon LaBadie wrote: > > > > > >On Fedora Core 3 there is documentation under: > > > > > > /usr/share/doc/mt-st-* > > > > > >One file of interest there is stinit.def.examples which has several > > >sample stinit.def examples for things like DDS and DLT and ??? drives. > > > > > >In addition to the standard nst#/st# devices (mode 0 from stinit.def) > > >and the nst#l/st#l (I beleive that is an ell, not a one) device that > > >Christopher mentioned, mode 2 and mode 3 are accessed with devices > > >nst#m/st#m and nst#a/st#a respectively. > > > > Where did you find that mapping between mode-number and suffix > > letter in /dev/st0X ? That has puzzled me since ages... > > > > Unfortunately, only in the course materials. > > -- > Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] > JG Computing > 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 > Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax) >