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Hi, everybody, I continue the up-hill progress toward making
an Exabyte tape-drive attached to my Linux box(at work) really
work.  I have installed a 1542 Adaptec drive, Linux sees it,
sees the Exabyte tapedrive attached to it, and I can even 
dd a file to the tape-drive and dd it back out.  _But_:
I can't read tapes I'd like to, 'cause they're variable
block size, and my "node", /dev/nrst0, Major 9, minor 128,
reads only fixed block size.  

Does anyone out there know the minor numbers for e.g.
variable block size, no rewind, no swap, and the various
permutations and combinations of such?  I would be happy
to RTFM, if someone would point me at the right Fine
Manual to read<g>.

TIA, best wishes,  Alan McConnell
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