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- Path: sparky!uunet!darwin.sura.net!convex!egsner!adaptex!adaptx1!neese
- From: neese@adaptx1.UUCP (Roy Neese)
- Subject: Re: Is a second tape device possible?
- Organization: Adaptec Inc., Texas
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 21:09:16 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.210916.21332@adaptx1.UUCP>
- Keywords: rct nrct tape dev
- References: <1992Jul27.213209.12200@ksgbbs.harvard.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul27.213209.12200@ksgbbs.harvard.edu> timb@ksgbbs.harvard.edu (Tim Buehrer - 625-6829) writes:
- >
- > We are trying to set up a second tape drive on our xenix box. mkdev tape
- > insists on just overwriting rct0 and nrct0 with the new settings. Is there
- > a way to create a second tape device like rct1 and nrct1?
-
- Sure. If the tape is hanging off of a SCSI card, you can make the
- device nodes by hand. The major number is (34 + the target ID) of the
- SCSI tape drive and the minor number is 0, so if you have a tape at
- target ID 4, the mknod command might look like;
-
- mknod /dev/tape2 c 38 0
-
- You don't need to do anything else, just access the drive. I have 2
- tape drives hooked up to my system and they work just fine.
- ---
-
- Roy Neese
- Adaptec Senior UNIX/SCSI Software Engineer
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