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Re: What is the ide-tape device name (/dev/?) ?



On Wed, 2001-10-03 at 17:00, Michael Fontenot wrote:
> I installed the ide-tape module, and an "lsmod" shows it to
> be there.  But there is no /dev/ht0 file (which was the way
> I accessed the ide-tape on my old redhat 5.0 system).
> 
> Is the device name for the ide-tape something else in Debain?
> Or do I need to do some additional configuration to make it
> work?

Make the device nodes using ./MAKEDEV ht0 in the dev directory as root
if the device file is missing.

If you are using devfs it might be hiding somewhere and not getting
symlinked to /dev/ht0 for convenience.

--mike



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