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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!nntp.portal.ca!news.bc.net!arclight.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!uwm.edu!news.cse.psu.edu!news.cc.swarthmore.edu!netnews.upenn.edu!sec.med.upenn.edu!reilly From: reilly@sec.med.upenn.edu (G B Reilly) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Exabyte 8505 and mknod Date: 15 Dec 1996 19:02:08 GMT Organization: University of Pennsylvania Lines: 7 Message-ID: <591hvg$20e@netnews.upenn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sec.med.upenn.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5446 Has anyone done an mknod for the Exabyte 8505 so that it writes tapes that are not compressed? The third number in the mknod sets the density and so far trying the numbers from the Exabyte documentation have failed.