I went there and looked. Device number 37 is for IDE tape drives, which IBM tape drives are not. So now I guess the question changes to this: Is there going to be an official tape number for IBM (34x0) drives, or are all the distributions going to use 37 (which would be fine by me), or is everyone going to use something of their own choice? I guess we've seen Red Hat's vote for using 37. What about SuSE, Turbolinux, Debian, etc.?
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Alan Cox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 4:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Major Number for Tape Devices > I noticed that the major number for tape devices in the 2.2 kernels was 254. > On my Red Hat 7.2 system, it's 37. Was this something that is supposed to > happen with all the distributions at the 2.4 kernel level? Or was this > something Red Hat specific? There is an official registry of device numbering (www.lanana.org). 254 is an experimental internal use one, not an official tape ident
