No EXABYTE 8505 on 2.6 kernels

[Mike Burger]

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Nathan Joyes wrote:

> John:
> 
> > I just upgraded my Redhat 9 with 2.4 kernel to FC2 with 2.6 kernel and
> > now I can no longer acces my EXABYTE 8505 tape drive.
> > mt stat gives this error:
> > [root at www john]# mt stat
> > /dev/tape: No such device or address
> 
> 
> mt uses /dev/tape rather than the actual device, the symbolic link may have
> been deleted when you
> upgraded, relink and you should be there.

By default, that is so.  If the Exabyte is the only tape drive, though, 
you should be able to use mt -f /dev/st0 stat.
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