Configure Tape drive on SCO

[Bob Lawson]

I have a DELL Poweredge successfully running SCO 6.  However I am trying to
get the tape drive working.

 

When I do a 'mkdev tape' I get the following:

Mass storage devices are configured automatically

when the system is booted with a new device present.

 

Current tape drive configuration:

 

Alias    - Address  - Inquiry String

--------   --------   --------------

hba6     - c3b0t7   - (adpu320,1) Adaptec Ultra320

ctape1   - c3b0t6l0 - SEAGATE DAT    DAT72-052A16E

 

See st01(7) for information about tape drive device nodes.

 

That's fine however when I look in /dev/rmt I only have:

 

c0s0        c0s0r       c3b0t6l0nr  ctape0      rtape0

c0s0n       c3b0t6l0    c3b0t6l0r   nrtape0     utape0

c0s0nr      c3b0t6l0n   c3b0t6l0u   ntape0

 

So ctape1 does not exist.  I'm not exactly sure why SCO choose ctape1 since
this is the only tape on the system.

 

How do I go about creating the nodes for ctape1?  Do I have to do it
manually(mknod)? If so what are the magic numbers?

 

Any attempt to access any of the existing device nodes results in errors:

 

# tape status /dev/rmt/ctape0

tape: can't open '/dev/rmt/ctape0': I/O error

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Thanks

Bob

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