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8.1.3.4: `/dev/rft*', `/dev/nrft*'

There were only eight device nodes provided by the ftape-2.x resp. sftape driver VFS front-end. These were `/dev/rft0' to `/dev/rft3' and `/dev/nrft0' to `/dev/nrft3'. The minor device number of theses devices codes for the rewinding/non-rewinding (see Rewinding and non-rewinding devices) mode and the drive selection method (see Drive selection) only.

For ftape-4.03 these are synonymous to `/dev/qft*' and `/dev/nqft*' which use the same major and minor device numbers. The shell script [/usr/src/ftape-4.03/]scripts/MAKEDEV.ftape creates the former as symlinks to `/dev/qft*' and `/dev/nqft*' (see Installing ftape) for compatibility reasons.


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