On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 10:44:12AM -0700, Sudhakar Chandra wrote:
>Rajesh Fowkar proclaimed:
>> The problem is that it works fine when we backup or append. But when
>> we try to take the listing of the tape it shows only the last file
>> which was appended and this listing of last file goes in a never
>> ending loop. The other files which were backed up are not present on
>> tape.
>>
>> This sptar uses a device called nrctg whose major and minor numbers
>> are 46 and 13.
>>
>> Since out tape device file is /dev/st0 with different major and
>> minor numbers, if we create /dev/nrctg with 46 & 13 it is not
>> recognised as tape device, obviosly.
>
>I don't know if this will work. But you can try it out quite easily.
>Create /dev/nrctg with major=46 && minor=13. Then symlink /dev/st0 to
>/dev/nrctg Might work.
Again it finally means that we are using nrctg with major-46 and minor=13 which the
linux kernel does not recognise as SCSI tape device. Symlink does not work.
Any other way is there ?
Thanks
Regards
Rajesh
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