Re: st0a = no such device

[David Hollister <david hollister cox net>]

On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 05:13, Joe Polk wrote:
> I would say that st0 is your tape. The others don't exist. Why would there be 
> duplicate devices pointing to the same physical device?

Because each of those devices refers to different options that the
hardware/driver may or may not support.  If they don't support the
option specified by the special device file (actually, specified by the
minor device you're opening), it will return an error indicating no such
device.

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David Hollister
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