ah yes, correct. I had mixed pmax and alpha terminology.. oops :-)
disclaimer: i run Ultrix on my PMAXen and thought that NetBSD wouldnt
be (still) using the Ultrix naming conventions! (though i prefer the
Ultrix conventions to the 'newer' conventions, as Ultrix is truer to
4.3BSD)
the thing with this guy's tape drive that wants to be a hard disk when it
grows up is comign from the fact that it reports itself as direct access
instead of sequential access when the machine is checking what's there!

does NetBSD have a utility like ultrix's (and OSF1's) scu? 

happy hacking,
isildur

On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Michael L. Hitch wrote:

> > this is correct. When you do MAKEDEV tz0 you will get the st devices. (st,
> > rst, nrst, and so on) 
> 
>   No, 'MAKEDEV' tz0 will get you rmt0, nrmt0, rmth0, nrmth0 (following the
> Ultrix naming conventions).
> 
>   As long as the device is reporting itself as a direct-access device, it
> will not be configured by the tz driver, but by the rz driver and would be
> configured as rz*.