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Installing a DLT, SDLT, VS, LTO, or DAT Tape Drive Into a Linux Operating System

6464215-01, Rev B

January 2006

Accessing Devices Using /dev/st* Device Nodes 14

Identifying Device

Nodes

Linux supports up to 32 tape devices [(n)st0* through (n)st31*). Device nodes

are numbered consecutively beginning with

Each operating system presets a certain number of device nodes as follows.

You may add more manually if needed (up to 32 total). The following table

shows two examples:

Sixth

column

Mmm DD

YYYY

Date. Not applicable.

Seventh

column,

section

heading

(n)stna

represents

a numeric

character;

represents

an alpha

character.

In the

example:

(n)st0*

Device Node Description. This is also the actual file name.

(n)st identifies the device node as either auto-rewind or no-rewind as

follows:

•

st identifies the device node as auto-rewind. See Creating Auto-Rewind

Device Nodes on page 16 for more information.

•

nst identifies the device node as no-rewind. See Creating No-Rewind

Device Nodes on page 16 for more information.

n (the numeric character) identifies the tape device. “0” identifies the first

device; “

1” identifies the second device; “2” identifies the third device, and

so forth. See Identifying Device Nodes

for more information.

a (the alpha character) identifies the mode. (No alpha character means

mode 1.) See Identifying Device Modes

for a list of modes.

Operating System Preset Device Nodes

RHEL3 (n)st0* through (n)st31*

SuSE9 (n)st0* through (n)st7*

Column Text Format Description

1 2 ... 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ... 31 32

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