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From: milburn@me10.lbl.gov (John Milburn)
Subject: Re: 9144 device file
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley
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X-Local-Date: Sat, 4 May 91 13:42:24 PDT
Reply-To: JEMilburn@lbl.gov (John Milburn)
Date: Sat, 4 May 91 20:42:24 GMT
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In article <3627@beguine.UUCP> Shawn.Hayes@bbs.acs.unc.edu (Shawn Hayes) writes:

>Thanks to an incredibly bad streak of luck the device file for the 9144 tape
>drive on our HP 9000 has been deleted.  I know that I need to use mknod in 
>order to recreate it, but I must be missing a couple of steps as I have not
>been able to make it work.  What are the steps needed to recreate the
>/dev entry for a 9144 tape drive?

I'll assume that the drive is hpib, and at select code 7, and that you
want a device file called /dev/rct.
use:

/etc/mknod /dev/rct c 4 0x070000

If you want to be able to mount it as a file system (but why :-) )
use:

/etc/mknod /dev/ct b 0 0x070000

-jem
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John Milburn             milburn@me10.lbl.gov     (415) 486-6969
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