Re: MAKEDEV

[Mirek Kwasniak <mirek@zind.ikem.pwr.wroc.pl>]

On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 11:36:59PM -0400, Chris Hoover wrote:
> I'm having problems with MAKEDEV.  It will not create the devices for my scsi
> tape.  In fact, it won't seem to create any devices.  I've tried running it
> with scsi, st, nst, etc, and it does not seem to do anything.  Is there a
> problem with the slink ver?  If not, how am I supposed to run it to create the
> devices I need?

Hi,


18:07:13 4:@dionizos~$ dpkg -S MAKEDEV
makedev: /usr/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8.gz
makedev: /dev/MAKEDEV
10:07:27 4:@dionizos~$ dpkg -l makedev|tail -1
ii  makedev         2.3.1-23       Creates special device files in /dev.
10:10:08 4:@dionizos~$

See man MAKEDEV:
[...]
       Tape Devices

       st[0-7]
              SCSI tapes.  This creates the rewinding tape device
              stx and the non-rewinding tape device nstx.

[...]

Because it isn't st class for all [n]st* devices you must use it with
number, for example st0:

10:07:42 0:2'@dionizos/dev$ ./MAKEDEV -v st0
create st0      c 9 0 root:tape 0660
create nst0     c 9 128 root:tape 0660
create st0l     c 9 32 root:tape 0660
create nst0l    c 9 160 root:tape 0660
create st0m     c 9 64 root:tape 0660
create nst0m    c 9 192 root:tape 0660
create st0a     c 9 96 root:tape 0660
create nst0a    c 9 224 root:tape 0660
10:07:59 0:2'@dionizos/dev$ ./MAKEDEV -v -d st0
delete st0
delete nst0
delete st0l
delete nst0l
delete st0m
delete nst0m
delete st0a
delete nst0a
10:08:16 0:2'@dionizos/dev$

Mirek