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Making Tape Drive Links
For more information on making tape drive links, see the ln(1) and mknod(1M) reference pages.
If you suspect that the tape device has not been properly created or that the links between the low-level device name (for example, /dev/mt/tps0d3) and the symbolic name (for example, /dev/tape) are not correct, then you may want to log in as root and run the MAKEDEV script with the following command sequence:
cd /dev
rm *tape*
./MAKEDEV [links or device-type]
Device types can be:
- tape links (to re-create all default tape links)
- tape (for all tape devices)
- qictape (for the older QIC-02 tape)
- tps (for Kennedy SCSI 1/2" tape)
- magtape (for Xylogics 1/2" tape)
Normally, the ./MAKEDEV tapelinks command is all you need to create links for the following default device names: nrtape, nrtapens, tape, tapens.
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