Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 08:40:46 -0400 From: Branson Matheson <branson@widomaker.com> To: "Amir Y. Rosenblatt" <amir@neuron.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More info on my tape drive problem Message-ID: <199606141240.IAA08383@garion.hq.ferg.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 14 Jun 1996 08:11:48 EDT." <199606141211.IAA00754@prozac.neuron.net>
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-------- "Amir Y. Rosenblatt" uttered with conviction: >Also, /dev/nrst0 and /dev/nrst0.0 had today's date on them instead of the >date they were installed. When /dev/tty had flaked it showed that day's >date instead of its install date. I tried using MAKEDEV to create new >copies of the files but MAKEDEV wasn't familiar with the device name: Not sure about why that changed... but... > >[root@prozac]/dev# ./MAKEDEV nrst0 >nrst0 - no such device name >[root@prozac]/dev# ./MAKEDEV nrst0.0 >nrst0.0 - no such device name Read the source luke!!! From the MAKEDEV script: # st* "NEW type scsi tapes" (old driver uses the # block devices of the disks to get access) so root@garion > MAKEDEV st1 >The same thing happened earlier in the week when I tried to MAKEDEV tty. Ok...# Terminal ports: # tty* general purpose serial ports # cua* dialout serial ports # ttyA* Specialix SI/XIO dialin ports ('*' = number of devices) # cuaA* Specialix SI/XIO dialout ports # ttyD* Digiboard - 16 dialin ports # cuaD* Digiboard - 16 dialout ports So which tty are you trying to make? ... you probably need root@garion > MAKEDEV tty1 -branson ============================================================================= Branson Matheson | Ferguson Enterprises | If Pete and Repeat were System Administrator | W: (804) 874-7795 | sittin on a fence and Pete Unix, Perl, WWW | branson@widomaker.com | fell off, who is left?
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