> I red RedBook, but, at least, in my case, it doesn't work. > May be they try to use tapes only with DEVFS?
Maybe try the following patch to assign it to some other major number: --- linux/drivers/s390/char/tapechar.h.nodevfs Thu Aug 16 17:20:15 2001 +++ linux/drivers/s390/char/tapechar.h Thu Aug 16 17:21:55 2001 @@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ #define TAPECHAR_H #include <linux/config.h> #define TAPECHAR_DEFAULTMODE 0020644 -#define TAPE_MAJOR 0 /* get dynamic major since no major officialy defined for tape */ +/* #define TAPE_MAJOR 0 get dynamic major since no major officialy defined for tape */ +#define TAPE_MAJOR 37 /* Umm... we need to create device nodes in /dev... */ /* * Prototypes for tape_fops */ cu, Florian La Roche > > > >#mknod /dev/rtibm0 c 254 0 (first rewinding character device) > >#mknod /dev/ntibm0 c 254 0 (first non-rewinding character device) > >#mknod /dev/btibm0 b 254 0 (first block device) > >#mknod /dev/rtibm1 c 254 1 (second rewinding character device) > >#mknod /dev/ntibm1 c 254 1 (second non-rewinding character device) > >#mknod /dev/btibm1 b 254 1 (second block device) > > > >How that corresponds to Sergey's success using ntibm1, I don't know. But, > >it may be worth a try.
