[Sussex] ftape, HP Colorado T3000 and kernel 2.4.18

[Jon Fautley]

Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:

> All,
> 
> I'm trying to get the above to work, however I've hit a small problem.
> :D
> 
> I've compiled the ftape/zftape modules into the kernel and they're
> loading fine, the issue is that there are no devices created under /dev
> and when I try any of the commands such as ftformat and ftmt, I just get
> the error "/dev/tape does not exist"

ln -s /dev/tape /dev/actual_tape_device

- or -
cd /dev
./MAKEDEV tape (or name of tape devices, i.e. for creating hda1, you'd 
type hda)

Hope this helps,

Jon
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