You should manually link /dev/tape to whatever device you want to be your
default tape drive device. On my system, I have 4 drives, so I'd be
slightly annoyed if the make install just willy-nilly grabbed the
/dev/tape entry and changed it on me.
To fix this, type: ln -sf /dev/nqft0 /dev/tape and all should be quite
well.
Or, you can just type: ftmt -f /dev/nqft0 status
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Tim Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Enhanced Software Technologies, Inc. (602) 470-1115
"The BRU Guys"
On Fri, 17 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> so, first i re-compiled my kerel WITHOUT ftape (make clean,, make dep
> make modules) moved all the modules out of lib/modules/2.2.12, then did
> a make modules_install, did the rest of the ker. install thing...
>
> compile the latest ftape from the dev site, did a make, make install,
> seems to be OK, here is what i find in /dev that MAY be ftape related -
> i have been trying to get ftape to work for a LONG time
>
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Dec 9 18:53 ftape -> rft0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Apr 1 1999 nftape -> nrft0
> crw------- 1 root root 27, 4 Dec 17 17:34 nqft0
> crw------- 1 root root 27, 5 Dec 17 17:34 nqft1
> crw------- 1 root root 27, 6 Dec 17 17:34 nqft2
> crw------- 1 root root 27, 7 Dec 17 17:34 nqft3
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Dec 17 17:34 nrft0 -> nqft0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Dec 17 17:34 nrft1 -> nqft1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Dec 17 17:34 nrft2 -> nqft2
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Dec 17 17:34 nrft3 -> nqft3
>
> crw------- 1 root root 27, 0 Dec 17 17:34 qft0
> crw------- 1 root root 27, 1 Dec 17 17:34 qft1
> crw------- 1 root root 27, 2 Dec 17 17:34 qft2
> crw------- 1 root root 27, 3 Dec 17 17:34 qft3
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Dec 17 17:34 rawft0 -> qft0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Dec 17 17:34 rawft1 -> qft1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Dec 17 17:34 rawft2 -> qft2
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Dec 17 17:34 rawft3 -> qft3
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Dec 17 17:34 rft0 -> qft0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Dec 17 17:34 rft1 -> qft1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Dec 17 17:34 rft2 -> qft2
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Dec 17 17:34 rft3 -> qft3
>
>
> (what are these?)
> crw------- 1 root root 27, 20 May 16 1999 nzqft0
> crw------- 1 root root 27, 21 May 16 1999 nzqft1
> crw------- 1 root root 27, 22 May 16 1999 nzqft2
> crw------- 1 root root 27, 23 May 16 1999 nzqft3
>
> crw------- 1 root root 27, 16 May 16 1999 zqft0
> crw------- 1 root root 27, 17 May 16 1999 zqft1
> crw------- 1 root root 27, 18 May 16 1999 zqft2
> crw------- 1 root root 27, 19 May 16 1999 zqft3
>
>
> i then do a .../modules/. insert, which seems to work... then i try to
> compile ftape-tools and get...
>
> gcc -g -O2 -o ftformat ftformat.o ftfmt-options.o ftfmt-tapelib.o
> ftfmt-bsm.o ../../lib/libFTtools.a
> ftfmt-tapelib.o: In function `raw_mode_onoff':
> /usr/home/remote/ftape-tools-1999_09_11/src/ftformat/ftfmt-tapelib.c:123:
> undefined reference to `minor'
> /usr/home/remote/ftape-tools-1999_09_11/src/ftformat/ftfmt-tapelib.c:125:
> undefined reference to `minor'
> make[2]: *** [ftformat] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/home/remote/ftape-tools-1999_09_11/src/ftformat'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/remote/ftape-tools-1999_09_11/src'
> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>
> o ya, i also have ftape from a previos attempt....
>
> remote@lothlorien /dev $ ftmt --version
> GNU mt version 2.4.2, adapted for ftape-tools 1.07
>
> that gets me this ....
>
> remote@lothlorien /dev $ ftmt status
> ftmt: /dev/tape: No such file or directory
>
> where should /dev/tape point to , and why has it not been created?
>
> anyway, thats whats happening in THIS box, expect another message from
> me about the other box that ftape is broken on...
>
