Re: /dev/tape

[Rick Stevens]

On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 17:31 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>  On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 17:19 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>  > Les Mikesell wrote:
>  > > After installing FC5, I don't see /dev/tape showing up as a symlink
>  > > to /dev/nst0 anymore and it disappears after a reboot if I add one
>  > > manually to make mt and amanda work.  The tape drive wasn't attached
>  > > when I installed - would that make a difference?  
>  > > /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules does have an entry:
>  > > KERNEL=="nst[0-9]", BUS=="scsi",       
> SYMLINK+="tape-%k", MODE="0660"
>  > > and I do have /dev/nst0.  Does it need something else?
>  > > 
>  > Looking at this rule, you probably have something like /dev/tape-0
>  > instead of /dev/tape. The %k is replaced with the kernel number, so
>  > that /dev/nst0 gets a /dev/tape-0 symlink. /dev/nst1 would get
>  > /dev/tape-1, and so forth.
>  
>  Actually it is making tape-nst0 -> nst0, but that doesn't help
>  much. 
Change the rule to:

	KERNEL=="nst[0-9]", BUS=="scsi", SYMLINK="tape%k",
MODE="0660"

and I'll bet it works.

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