From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 28 11:32:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc2.on.home.com (ha1.rdc2.on.home.com [24.9.0.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F5FC14CF7 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 11:32:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from street@iname.com) Received: from mired.eh.local ([24.64.136.188]) by mail.rdc2.on.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.07 201-229-111-110) with ESMTP id <19991028183231.WYAK3040.mail.rdc2.on.home.com@mired.eh.local>; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 11:32:31 -0700 Received: (from kws@localhost) by mired.eh.local (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA67796; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 14:32:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from kws) To: "Ryan Troy" Cc: Subject: Re: Seagate Travan Tape Drive Support References: From: Kevin Street Date: 28 Oct 1999 14:32:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: "Ryan Troy"'s message of "Thu, 28 Oct 1999 09:34:17 -0600" Message-ID: <87wvs772v5.fsf@mired.eh.local> Lines: 31 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.1 - "Biscayne" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Ryan Troy" 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): , 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message