[tech] DLT/Backups.

Simon Fryer fryers at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Sat Jan 5 10:26:27 WST 2002


Morning

> A while ago James Devenish tapped:

> What is tape0, then?

The interal DAT drive. 

The internal DAT drive sits at SCSI ID2, the DLT at 5. Hence the DAT drive is 
recognised as tape0 and the DLT as tape1. 

<insert rant about disk numbering and how it all changed when you add
another disk and it breaks the fstab file. (In OpenBSD anyway)>

See Ya
Simon

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