Tape drive device files?
I've installed a HP Colorado 8GB ide tape drive on my slink system. The
kernel detects the tape drive when booting:
Jul 12 13:29:38 sjbp0164 kernel: ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0
function 57
Jul 12 13:29:38 sjbp0164 kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcd0-0xfcd7
Jul 12 13:29:38 sjbp0164 kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfcd8-0xfcdf
Jul 12 13:29:38 sjbp0164 kernel: hda: IBM-DTTA-371010, 9641MB w/465kB
Cache, CHS=1024/240/63, UDMA
Jul 12 13:29:38 sjbp0164 kernel: hdc: CD-532E-A, ATAPI CDROM drive
Jul 12 13:29:38 sjbp0164 kernel: hdd: HP COLORADO 8GB, ATAPI TAPE drive
Jul 12 13:29:38 sjbp0164 kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Jul 12 13:29:38 sjbp0164 kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
It then configures it:
Jul 12 13:29:38 sjbp0164 kernel: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6
hda7 hda8 >
Jul 12 13:29:38 sjbp0164 kernel: ide-tape: hdd: overriding
capabilities->speed (assuming 650KB/sec)
Jul 12 13:29:38 sjbp0164 kernel: ide-tape: hdd: overriding
capabilities->max_speed (assuming 650KB/sec)
Jul 12 13:29:38 sjbp0164 kernel: ide-tape: hdd <-> ht0, 650KBps, 16*32kB
buffer, 3200kB pipeline, 250ms tDSC
and it would appear that it is using the device file ht0, but the device
doesn't exist. What am I missing? What is the proceedure for creating
the device files for this tape drive?
Thanks in advance,
Jon.
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