On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 02:18:25AM -0500, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
>
> /dev/rmt0?  What interface is that? I don't have that device in sparc
> and it's not in MAKEDEV.  Is that the device for non-scsi tapes
> (ATAPI, etc?)

it's the device for the old BSD4.4 DEC driver, which I don't think
exists on any platforms other than pmax.  :)

as for writing the same bit over and over again, maybe the drive is
performing compression?  I think you can turn it off with
"mt -f /dev/nrst0 compress 0."

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