Re: Exabyte EXB-8505, How do I access it?
On Sun, 18 May 1997, Ken Gaugler wrote:
> I connected a Exabyte EXB-8505 8mm tape drive to my SCSI card to
> do some backups, but I am having trouble figuring out how to
> access the drive. I assumed it was as simple as referring to
> /dev/rst0, but that doesn't work. I tried insmod st.o, but I
> get the message that a module by that name already exists.
You most likely don't have any such device. Here:
/dev# ./MAKEDEV -n st
crw-rw---- 1 root disk 9, 0 for st0
crw-rw---- 1 root disk 9, 1 for st1
crw-rw---- 1 root disk 9, 2 for st2
crw-rw---- 1 root disk 9, 3 for st3
crw-rw---- 1 root disk 9, 4 for st4
crw-rw---- 1 root disk 9, 5 for st5
crw-rw---- 1 root disk 9, 6 for st6
crw-rw---- 1 root disk 9, 7 for st7
crw-rw---- 1 root disk 9, 128 for nst0
crw-rw---- 1 root disk 9, 129 for nst1
crw-rw---- 1 root disk 9, 130 for nst2
crw-rw---- 1 root disk 9, 131 for nst3
crw-rw---- 1 root disk 9, 132 for nst4
crw-rw---- 1 root disk 9, 133 for nst5
crw-rw---- 1 root disk 9, 134 for nst6
crw-rw---- 1 root disk 9, 135 for nst7
If you (as root), run a:
#/dev/MAKEDEV -v st
you'll make your devices, then access the first rewinding SCSI tape as
/dev/st0. If you'd rather have it not rewind, and instead use mt for
that, use /dev/nst0.
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