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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 14:02:27 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 14:02:27 -0400 |
| commit | 6d8bdc65446a704d0750217efd05532fc641ea7d (patch) | |
| tree | 8ae6d698b3c9801750a8b117b3842fb369872a3a /static/openbsd/man4/mtio.4 | |
| parent | 2f467bd7ff8f8db0dafa40426166491d7f57f368 (diff) | |
docs: OpenBSD Man Pages Added
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diff --git a/static/openbsd/man4/mtio.4 b/static/openbsd/man4/mtio.4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8cea2ae6 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/openbsd/man4/mtio.4 @@ -0,0 +1,111 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: mtio.4,v 1.16 2015/09/10 17:55:21 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: mtio.4,v 1.4 1996/03/03 17:13:54 thorpej Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991 The Regents of the University of California. +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" from: @(#)mtio.4 6.5 (Berkeley) 3/27/91 +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: September 10 2015 $ +.Dt MTIO 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm mtio +.Nd magtape interface +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In sys/mtio.h +.Sh DESCRIPTION +This interface concerns devices which are typical tape block devices, +see +.Xr physio 9 . +.Pp +The conventional device letters/numbers +is applicable to any of the transport/controller pairs. +(But note that only 1600 +.Tn BPI +is available with the +.Tn TS11 , +and that 800 +.Tn BPI +is not applicable to +.Tn TM78 . ) +.Pp +When the device last number is between +.Em 0-7 +the device will operate at 800 +.Tn BPI +(or its lowest density), between +.Em 8-15 +it will operate at 1600 +.Tn BPI +(or its second density), and between +.Em 16-23 +it will operate at 6250 +.Tn BPI . +.Pp +The rewind devices automatically rewind +when the last requested read, write or seek has finished, or the end of the tape +has been reached. +The letter +.Ql n +is usually prepended to +the name of the no-rewind devices. +.Pp +Unix tapes are written in multiples of 1024 byte block +records. +Two end-of-file markers mark the end of a tape, and +one end-of-file marker marks the end of a tape file. +If the tape is not to be rewound it is positioned with the +head in between the two tape marks, where the next write +will overwrite the second end-of-file marker. +.Pp +All of the magtape devices may be manipulated with the +.Xr mt 1 +command. +.Pp +The include file +.In sys/mtio.h +defines the various +.Xr ioctl 2 +operations available on raw magnetic tape. +.Sh FILES +.Bl -tag -width /dev/rmt? -compact +.It Pa /dev/mt? +.It Pa /dev/rmt? +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr mt 1 , +.Xr tar 1 , +.Xr intro 4 , +.Xr st 4 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +manual appeared in +.Bx 4.2 . +.Sh BUGS +The status should be returned in a device independent format. |
