On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 12:16:53PM -0400, Daniel P. Katz wrote: > I just finished installing Debian 2.2 on a box with a Seagate > Tapestor8000 IDE tape drive and ran into a bit of a problem. When I > boot up the machine, I get the following messages: > > hdb: Seagate STT8000A, ATAPI TAPE drive > [...] > ide-tape: hdb <-> ht0, 600KBps, 14*26kB buffer, 2600kB pipeline, 190ms tDSC > > but when I try to access the tape drive I find that there is no > /dev/ht0. Do I need to create this device by hand? If so, how do I > do this?
No, there is a script that does it for you. It is called /usr/src/linux/scripts/MAKEDEV.ide #less /usr/src/linux/Documentation/ide.txt tells you somehing about IDE-Tapes. Phil
