Re: ide-atapi tape drive and device files

[Christopher Pharo Glæserud <glaserud-debuser@orakel.ntnu.no>]

Mark Barnes, 

> There is no device ht0 in my /dev directory.  I ran the script MAKEDEV,
> following some hints in the
> file  /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.27/Documentation/ide.txt, but that
> didn't seem to do the job either.  I'm running Debian testing here.  Can
> anyone point me to some documentation that'll tell me how to create the
> device ht0, and allow me to access an ide-atapi tape drive seen as hdd
> by the kernel?  Thanks.

Try

cd /dev
mknod ht0 c 37 0

(create node named ht0 as a character device with MAJOR 37 and MINOR 0
as per Documentation/devices.txt from the kernel sources.

hdd will fail, as /dev/hdd is a block device and not a character device.

-- 
regards,

Christopher Pharo Glæserud