[Gllug] flushing tape drive cache
Martin A. Brooks
martin at hinterlands.org
Mon Mar 27 12:58:30 UTC 2006
Tet wrote:
>> Why would a scsi tape drive be attached to /dev/hda which is the primary
>> channel of the first IDE/ATA controller of the system?
>
> Probably because it's an ATAPI tape drive rather than a SCSI one...
I've never used one of those myself, but I assumed they went through the
ide-scsi emulation layer and so would be presented as SCSI devices.
Useful to know, thanks.
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