Help - IDE tape drive devices?

[Jon Dallara <jon@sjbp0164.sj.hp.com>]

Hi All,

  Just installed a new IDE tape drive on my system but I can't figure
out how to create the device files for it.  Tried MAKEDEV but it didn't
help.  From dmesg:

ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcd0-0xfcd7
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfcd8-0xfcdf
hda: IBM-DTTA-371010, 9641MB w/465kB Cache, CHS=1024/240/63, UDMA
hdc: CD-532E-A, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdd: HP COLORADO 8GB, ATAPI TAPE drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
md driver 0.36.3 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 >
ide-tape: hdd: overriding capabilities->speed (assuming 650KB/sec)
ide-tape: hdd: overriding capabilities->max_speed (assuming 650KB/sec)
ide-tape: hdd <-> ht0, 650KBps, 16*32kB buffer, 3200kB pipeline, 250ms
tDSC


Looks like the device file should be /dev/ht0 which doesn't exist.  From
/proc/devices:

Character devices:
 1 mem
 2 pty
 3 ttyp
 4 ttyS
 5 cua
 6 lp
 7 vcs
10 misc
12 tpqic02
27 ft
36 netlink
37 ht0

Block devices:
 1 ramdisk
 2 fd
 3 ide0
 7 loop
 9 md
22 ide1
36 ed


Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,

Jon.

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