Re: tape drive device

[kmself]

On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 11:57:30AM -0400, Rob Lilley wrote:
> I've installed the "base" and standard" slink distributions, configured
> them and then went to do a tar archive to my Seagate 4mm SCSI tape drive.
> Bless me, there is no /dev/st0 to do this to.  Are they not supported?
> Do I have to add another package or rebuild the kernel to get this driver?

You do need to have both SCSI and SCSI tape support built into the
kernel (or loaded as modules).  You might look to see whether or not
there's a /lib/modules//st.o module on your system.

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Re: tape drive device

[Robert Waldner]

man MAKEDEV

...
DESCRIPTION
   MAKEDEV  is  a script that will create the devices in /dev
   used to interface with drivers in the kernel.
...

hth,
&rw

On Sat, 29 Apr 2000 11:57:30 EDT, "Rob Lilley" writes:
>I've installed the "base" and standard" slink distributions, configured them
>and then went to do a tar archive to my Seagate 4mm SCSI tape drive.  Bless
>me, there is no /dev/st0 to do this to.  Are they not supported?   Do I have
>to add another package or rebuild the kernel to get this driver?


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tape drive device

[Rob Lilley]

I've installed the "base" and standard" slink distributions, configured them
and then went to do a tar archive to my Seagate 4mm SCSI tape drive.  Bless
me, there is no /dev/st0 to do this to.  Are they not supported?   Do I have
to add another package or rebuild the kernel to get this driver?

Rob

Tape drive device files?

[Jon Dallara]

I've installed a HP Colorado 8GB ide tape drive on my slink system.  The
kernel detects the tape drive when booting:

Jul 12 13:29:38 sjbp0164 kernel: ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0
function 57 
Jul 12 13:29:38 sjbp0164 kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcd0-0xfcd7 
Jul 12 13:29:38 sjbp0164 kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfcd8-0xfcdf 
Jul 12 13:29:38 sjbp0164 kernel: hda: IBM-DTTA-371010, 9641MB w/465kB
Cache, CHS=1024/240/63, UDMA 
Jul 12 13:29:38 sjbp0164 kernel: hdc: CD-532E-A, ATAPI CDROM drive 
Jul 12 13:29:38 sjbp0164 kernel: hdd: HP COLORADO 8GB, ATAPI TAPE drive 
Jul 12 13:29:38 sjbp0164 kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 
Jul 12 13:29:38 sjbp0164 kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 

It then configures it:

Jul 12 13:29:38 sjbp0164 kernel:  hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6
hda7 hda8 > 
Jul 12 13:29:38 sjbp0164 kernel: ide-tape: hdd: overriding
capabilities->speed (assuming 650KB/sec) 
Jul 12 13:29:38 sjbp0164 kernel: ide-tape: hdd: overriding
capabilities->max_speed (assuming 650KB/sec) 
Jul 12 13:29:38 sjbp0164 kernel: ide-tape: hdd <-> ht0, 650KBps, 16*32kB
buffer, 3200kB pipeline, 250ms tDSC 

and it would appear that it is using the device file ht0, but the device
doesn't exist.  What am I missing?  What is the proceedure for creating
the device files for this tape drive?

Thanks in advance,

Jon.

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