Thanks to all,
this is from the man pages for "st" ...
For helical-scan tape devices (Exabyte):
/dev/rst[0-7 Standard EXB-8200 (2GB) Format
/dev/rst[8-15] EXB-8500 (5GB) Format
/dev/rst[16-23] Compressed Format (EXB-8500 only)
/dev/rst[24-31] Compressed Format (EXB-8500 only)
> Could someone offer any hints on which of the following is likely to be the 5G device?
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> thanks,
> james@sybase.com
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> crw-rw-rw- 1 root 18, 0 Jun 2 14:19 /dev/rst0
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root 18, 16 Nov 5 1992 /dev/rst16
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root 18, 24 Nov 5 1992 /dev/rst24
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root 18, 8 Nov 5 1992 /dev/rst8
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> machinename# mt -f /dev/rst0 stat
> Exabyte EXB-8500 8mm tape drive:
> sense key(0x0)= no sense residual= 0 retries= 0
> file no= 0 block no= 0
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