Date: 28 Oct 1999 14:32:30 -0400 From: Kevin Street <street@iname.com> To: "Ryan Troy" <rtroy@springsips.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Seagate Travan Tape Drive Support Message-ID: <87wvs772v5.fsf@mired.eh.local> In-Reply-To: "Ryan Troy"'s message of "Thu, 28 Oct 1999 09:34:17 -0600" References: <EIEIILDHIFEJBPAIPJJOIEKJCAAA.rtroy@springsips.com>
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"Ryan Troy" <rtroy@springsips.com> writes:
> I got a 4gig Seagate Travan IDE ATAPI tape drive recently I am running
> FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE it detects it on boot as wdc1 the IDE channel its on
> so I compiled the kernel with this option:
>
> device wst0 #Tape Drive
>
> Like it said in the LINT file, so then on reboot I get:
>
> wdc1 at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa
> wdc1: unit 0 (atapi): <Seagate STT8000A/5.44>, removable, accel, dma, iordis
> wst0: Drive empty, readonly, reverse, qfa, ecc, 512b
> wst0: Max speed=600Kb/s, Transfer limit=52 blocks, Buffer size=728 blocks
>
> Then I goto /dev/ there is no entry for it ./MAKEDEV wont make the entry
> is this tape drive compatible with FreeBSD 3.3? or am i missing a step?
$ grep wst /dev/MAKEDEV
sh MAKEDEV ft0 sa0 wt0 wst0 # bdev, tape
wst*)
mknod rwst${unit} c $chr `expr $unit '*' 8 + 0`
chgrp operator rwst${unit}
chmod 640 rwst${unit}
Your MAKEDEV is old. /dev/MAKEDEV does not get reinstalled with make
world. See /usr/ports/sysutils/mergemaster for an easy way to get
your /etc and /dev things up to date.
--
Kevin Street
street@iname.com
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