Re: tape drive device

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 a

Re: tape drive device

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 >an

tape drive device

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?

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 ker