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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
