From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 3 23:38:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F6AB1543C for ; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 23:38:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA20547; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 23:38:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 23:38:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Damien Tougas Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE Tape Drive Configuration In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Damien Tougas wrote: > Hello, > > I am using FreeBSD 3.1, and have just installed an IDE HP Colorado 8Gb > Travan tape backup. The device is recognized and works properly as rwst0, > however, I really would like a nrwst0 to be able to do multiple backups on > the same tape. I have tried MAKEDEV, but I am new to UNIX and have not had > much success using this script. Hm, the man page implies it's allowed. Try running the following commands as root in /dev: mknod nrwst0 c 90 2 chgrp operator nrwst0 chmod 640 nrwst0 Now try it. This is an omission in MAKEDEV, probably. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message