Re: Tape drive support in 2.2.10 kernal
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 05:35:49AM +0000, Lance Tagliapietra wrote:
> > > >
> > > > root@gleep:~>ll /dev/st0*
> > > > crw-rw---- 1 root tape 9, 0 Jul 5 2000 /dev/st0
> > > > crw-rw---- 1 root tape 9, 96 Jul 5 2000 /dev/st0a
> > > > crw-rw---- 1 root tape 9, 32 Jul 5 2000 /dev/st0l
> > > > crw-rw---- 1 root tape 9, 64 Jul 5 2000 /dev/st0m
> > > > root@gleep:~>ll /dev/rst0*
> > > > ls: /dev/rst0*: No such file or directory
> > >
> > > I do not have any of those devices. Are they supposed to be created
> > > during the install procedure? I am installing off a 3 cd set
> > Yes, they should. I have them and the install is most probably from 2.2r0.
> > The boot-floppies source also says they should be there. Sorry, I have no
> > time to do a potato test install to confirm that now.
> > man mknod. /dev/MAKEDEV st0 should do it (unless you have more than one
> > tapes ;-)
> > But... the kernel _does_ tell you about the device names:
> > Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> > ^^^
> > Detected scsi removable disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
> > ^^^
> > Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0
> > ^^^
> > If I had a tape, I would talk about st0, I bet.
>
> Below is my dmesg. Notice that the point where SCSI devices are detected,
> the tape drive is not assigned to a device. Perhaps this is because the
> device nodes were not set up for the tape drive. I'll investigate down
> this path. Note the error on sdb can be ignored. I have been using that
> device in raw mode, like a tape, to move files form the OpenBSD system
> on my Mac to the AmigaOS/Debian system.
Well, did you generate the device nodes as I told you? That would give you
an immediate answer.
Christian
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