>>> 1) How come the character (raw) scsi tape device read and write routines are
>>>  disabled (in the cdev switch)? The block read and write routines work.
>>
>>You generally don't mess with tapes in anything but blocks.  At least,
>>that's my best estimation of why there aren't any character devices for
>>the tape.  The drivers were written by Julian Elischer a while back and
>>we just implemented the low-level parts.
>>
>Well, my memory is that the raw devices worked on my PC (NetBSD 1.0). I
>note that the mac port has its own copies of the SCSI drivers, which seems
>odd, since nothing should be different except the lower levels...
>

/dev/st0 wouldn't work on my setup (Amiga3k) but /dev/rst0 works fine
There are also the non-rewinding versions nst0 & nrst0 which didn't
work when I tried them but I havn't tried really hard yet :-)

Tape is SONY-SDT2000 2GByte DAT

James

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