From: Gerry Gucher (gegu@zurich.spectrospin.ch)
Date: 07/11/93


From: gegu@zurich.spectrospin.ch (Gerry Gucher)
Subject: Trying to attach a magnetic tape or DAT to Linux
Date: 11 Jul 1993 09:28:05 GMT

Hello Linuxers,

I am trying to attach a DAT (or if this fails a regular scsi mt) to
Linux.

My configuration:

   - Adaptec 1542C SCSI host adapter
   - Linux SLS 1.01 ( Kernel 0.99pl8 )
   - Intel i486 16Mb ram

   - HP DAT or QIC mt

My problem:

   When I boot, the system correctly identifies a DAT on
   SCSI ID 5 and /dev/st0. Unfortunately I don't have an
   entry /dev/st0, in fact I don't have any /dev/st*.

   Since at boot time the kernel identifies the device, I guess
   the code is there and I just have to do a mknod and/or a MAKEDEV
   in the /dev directory.

Could someone please tell me exactly how to do it and what major/minor
numbers to use ? I sniffed around in /usr/src/linux but could not
find any pointers.

Thanks a lot,

Gerry