Mark

I believe the behaviour you're seeing is by design. IBM chose a number
that was larger than the expected maximum number of tape drives. The
actual number chosen as the seed for the persistent tape names is 4801101
because it's hex equivalent is 0x49424d, and this in turn is the ASCII
codes for IBM strung together.

More of an in-joke among the device driver developers than anything more
complex, I suspect.

Regards
Neil


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