No EXABYTE 8505 on 2.6 kernels

[Nathan Joyes]

John:

> I just upgraded my Redhat 9 with 2.4 kernel to FC2 with 2.6 kernel and
> now I can no longer acces my EXABYTE 8505 tape drive.
> mt stat gives this error:
> [root at www john]# mt stat
> /dev/tape: No such device or address


mt uses /dev/tape rather than the actual device, the symbolic link may have
been deleted when you
upgraded, relink and you should be there.

Nathan.