On another system that I had, I did try and use makedev, but it did 
not work.  It made the devices, but links were not made to correct
locations....
I ended up rebuilding the system with the drive in and all went well.
The system now sees the tape drive,  there really ought to be a better 
way to add hardware to a Linux box without having to rebuild the system.


Thanks again!
Mike

On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 17:32, g wrote:
> g wrote:
> 
> >> Michael Noble wrote:
> >> harddrake2 does see the scsi contoller, where I am having difficulty is setting
> >> up the device files in /dev for the tape drive.
> >
> > i have yet to setup a device file in linux, but many in unix. i will take
> > a look to see what is required in linux. should not be all that different.
> 
> and it is not. take a look at this, [incase you have not already]
> 
> under kde, raise taskbar, click on:
>    start application | what to do | read documents | read kde documents | \
>    unix manual pages | (8) sys. administration | makedev
> 
> i tried it, but found that makedev was not installed. could also be why when i
> tried 'man makedev', i got a 'not found'. so i did not go any further with it.
> 
> > google should be a good place for a search. use advanced search
> > and use words 'driver, linux, scsi, tape'. if you get a high hit
> > count, add 'dat'. you could narrow further using 'dds' and 'adaptec'.
> 
> enter words without ','.
> 
> 
> perseverance.
> 
> peace out.
> 
> tc,hago.
> 
> g
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