How do you configure FC3 so that tape devices are static?

[David Kerrivan]

Paul Howarth wrote:

>> I really want my DDS2 drive to remain at st0 and my
DLT to be st1 
>
>>across every single reboot, whether it's powered on
or not.
>> 
>> Pointers folks?

>You can probably achieve this by creating a pair of
local udev rules in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-custom.rules
that identify your specific devices and create the
device nodes before the "standard" Fedora rules get a 
chance to do it.

>See: http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php for
details on how to write these rules.

>Paul.

Thanks Paul. This looks like it's what I need. I can
se e the value of udev, as used to static binding as I
am from Solaris. Michael Peter's pointer about hal
will bear more digging, but udev looks like it will
fill the bill once I master the subject. That's not
happening tonight - not after a week of tracing gigs
of Vertias NetBackup logs. :-)

Again, many thanks for the pointer and URL.

David Kerrivan