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>&#13;No interface changes. In lk 2.2 the maximum number of extra tape devices
that could be added after boot time was limited to 3. This limitation
has been removed (leaving a maximum of 32 tape devices as noted earlier).
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>&#13;A variant st driver called "osst" to handle early model OnStream tape
drives has been added in lk 2.4 .
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