From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 3 May 2001 11:17:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 3 May 2001 11:17:01 -0400 Received: from cpe-66-1-218-52.fl.sprintbbd.net ([66.1.218.52]:7437 "EHLO mail.compro.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 3 May 2001 11:16:43 -0400 Message-ID: <3AF17679.DCD39840@compro.net> Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 11:17:13 -0400 From: Mark Hounschell Reply-To: markh@compro.net Organization: Compro Computer Svcs. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" CC: markh@compro.net Subject: raw tape device support??? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sorry if this isn't the correct place for this question. Is there or will there ever be raw tape device access. I'm trying to port an app from Dec unix and at least there the app requires /dev/rmt** (raw device). I've read in the archives about how to bind a block device to a raw device using the raw command but the tape dev (/dev/st*) is a char device and the command doesn't work on char devices. So I'm trying to figure out to get the same effect as /dev/rmt* does on the dec box in a linux environment. I'm not a member of this list (sorry) so if anyone can respond to this please cc to it markh@compro.net. Thank you very much in advance Mark Hounschell markh@compro.net