Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 14:57:26 +0930 (CST) From: Greg Lewis <glewis@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au> To: obituary <c9710216@atlas.newcastle.edu.au> Cc: Pedro Leitao <pete@jeeves.poopie.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MAKEDEV Message-ID: <199907250527.OAA35786@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <379A80BC.9412A91B@atlas.newcastle.edu.au> from obituary at "Jul 25, 1999 01:13:00 pm"
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> > I just added a new scsi backup tape drive on my server. > > I compiled the kernel, and the scsi card and tape drive now show > > up on startup as ahc0(card) and sa0(drive). > > > > I want to use that drive, but the device sa0 doesn't show in /dev. > > I am trying to make it with ./MAKEDEV sa0, but that just doesn't work. > > When I run ./MAKEDEV sa0 , it looks like it runs, but the sa0 device > > doesn't show in /dev/ > > > > How do I make the backup tape drive device so that I can use it? > > > > thanx in advance for any help.. > > Looking at the MAKEDEV script, I think the device(s) it created for you > were raw devices. Do an "ls -al /dev/rsa*" and see what turns up. > It'll probably be /dev/rsa0 that you'll want to use. This is correct AFAIK. Only nit is you'll probably want to use /dev/nrsa0 most of the time rather than /dev/rsa0, unless you _want_ your tape rewinding at the end of every dump that is :). -- Greg Lewis glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au Computing Officer +61 8 8303 5083 Teletraffic Research Centre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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