/dev/tape

[Les Mikesell]

On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 17:19 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
> > After installing FC5, I don't see /dev/tape showing up as a symlink
> > to /dev/nst0 anymore and it disappears after a reboot if I add one
> > manually to make mt and amanda work.  The tape drive wasn't attached
> > when I installed - would that make a difference?  
> > /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules does have an entry:
> > KERNEL=="nst[0-9]", BUS=="scsi",        SYMLINK+="tape-%k", MODE="0660"
> > and I do have /dev/nst0.  Does it need something else?
> > 
> Looking at this rule, you probably have something like /dev/tape-0
> instead of /dev/tape. The %k is replaced with the kernel number, so
> that /dev/nst0 gets a /dev/tape-0 symlink. /dev/nst1 would get
> /dev/tape-1, and so forth.

Actually it is making tape-nst0 -> nst0, but that doesn't help
much.

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