RE: Need SCSI Tape Help
Thanks,
MAKEDEV did work but tape support was already in my custom (SMP) kernel. The
machine that has all the proper devices without my intervention is running
2.0, so, I guess something is missing in the kernel build process. If I knew
where to start, I'd go looking and post a fix. In any case, thanks for all
the responses. They were *all* workable which a lot more than I can say for
my $calls$ to Redmond :)
-----Original Message-----
From: Keith G. Murphy [mailto:keithmur@mindspring.com]
Sent: Friday, October 15, 1999 10:29 AM
To: 'Debian List'
Subject: Re: Need SCSI Tape Help
Mike Barton wrote:
>
> Hi all!
>
> I'm using slink with an SMP kernel (2.0.36) on a dual Pentium Pro 200 with
> 256M RAM. The HD setup is a pair of 4 GB Seagate Barracudas on an Adaptec
> 2940UW along with an SCSI CDROM and a Tandberg 4222 tape drive. I've got a
> really sweet server here except that I just noticed there are no /dev/st*
> for the tape drive. Anyone know at what point during the installation
these
> get created? I've got another machine here with an SCSI tape with lots of
> /dev/st*. I'd sure hate to mknod 'em all by hand on the new beast.
>
Your kernel is configured for SCSI tape support, right? I don't think
that's the default. Do a 'make menuconfig' and look for it.
If it's there, I believe you can cd to '/dev' and do a MAKEDEV, and that
will create all the proper devices for you automatically.
Folks, isn't the kernel build process supposed to do this for you? I
remember having to do this myself, for a SCSI tape also, I believe. I
used make-kpkg, then installed the binary package.
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