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For some reason the solaris 2.4 installation did not put in device nodes
for my Exabyte 8200 8mm tape drive.  I'm trying to find what major
and minor device number I should use but haven't had any luck.
I thought that solaris would automatically detect my 8mm drive on scsi
id 4 just like sunos but apparently it does not.

Can someone give me a clue?  Or better yet, tell me where I can find
this information.

Please reply via email.
Thanks.
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Check out our multiplatform backup utility for SunOS 4.1.x systems at
http://www.pacrain.com/~gensoft.  You can download a free demo.

So, halt the machine (shutdown -i0 -g0 -y) then at the ok> prompt
type:
boot -r

Timothy

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    Genetic> For some reason the solaris 2.4 installation did not put
    Genetic> in device nodes for my Exabyte 8200 8mm tape drive.  I'm
    Genetic> trying to find what major and minor device number I
    Genetic> should use but haven't had any luck.  I thought that
    Genetic> solaris would automatically detect my 8mm drive on scsi
    Genetic> id 4 just like sunos but apparently it does not.

    Genetic> Can someone give me a clue?  Or better yet, tell me where
    Genetic> I can find this information.

Do a 'boot -r' to reconfigure all devices.

    Genetic> Check out our multiplatform backup utility for SunOS
    Genetic> 4.1.x systems at http://www.pacrain.com/~gensoft.  You
    Genetic> can download a free demo.

Morten
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Quote:>So, halt the machine (shutdown -i0 -g0 -y) then at the ok> prompt
>type:
>boot -r

Cheers,

Rob
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