On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 01:23:32PM +1100, Paul Hampson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 07:57:41PM -0500, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > > Problem: devfs & devfsd do not create /dev/cdroms and /dev/tapes and > > related symbolic links. > > [snip] > > Any thoughts on how I can get devfs to create /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 and > > /dev/tapes/tape0 and symbolic links to these devices? I haven't been > > able to figure out how to do this from devfs FAQ and kernel > > documentation or come across solutions searching with google. > > I don't know about tape drives, but to get the /dev/cdroms/cdromx > and /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target1/lun0/cd devices, you need the > scsi CD driver loaded. Then they'll exist. Presumably it's the > same for the scsi tape driver as well. Thanks, loading modules st and sr_mod created the tape and cd devices and symbolic links. ...interesting...I've never had to load those modules before to get tape or cdrom work. -- Jerome
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