Re: /dev/tape

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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.

Mikkel
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