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Subject: Re: Accessing tape drive using passthrough driver
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>
> There are some "pass" devices under /dev:
>
> > ls -la /dev/pass*
> crw-------  1 root  operator   31,   0 Oct 21  2002 pass0
> crw-------  1 root  operator   31,   1 Oct 21  2002 pass1
> crw-------  1 root  operator   31,   2 Oct 21  2002 pass2
> crw-------  1 root  operator   31,   3 Oct 21  2002 pass3
>
> I have four hard drives attached to the first controller, don't know 
> if this has any influence on the list above.
>
>
> So if someone just could tell me if and how I can make sure that the 
> tape drive is accessible using the "pass" driver, I'd be really happy.
>
try running "camcontrol devlist -v"
as part of that output will be the pass device for each unit found.

If the pass device associated with the tape device does not exist, 
create it and try TapeWare again.