On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 13:27:44 -0500 (EST)  mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:

> 
> 
> I just attached a SCSI tape drive to my DECstation 5000/200 running
> NetBSD-1.3.3 GENERIC#0.  'dmesg' says:
> 
> [snip]
> Beginning old-style SCSI device autoconfiguration
> rz0 at asc0 drive 0 slave 0 DEC RZ56     (C) DEC rev 0300
> rz0: 634MB, 1632 cyl, 15 head, 53 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 1299174 sectors
> tz0 at asc0 drive 5 slave 0 ARCHIVE IBM4326NP/RP  !D rev 4BKA
> [/snip]
> 
> So I should be able to do stuff like:
> 'mt -f /dev/tz0 rew'
> and 
> 'tar cvf /dev/tz0 my_home_dir'
> 
> but /dev/tz0 doesn't exist.  So as root, I did
> 
> # cd /dev
> # ./MAKEDEV tz0
> # ./MAKEDEV tz1
> # ls *tz*
> ls: No match.
> # ./MAKEDEV all
> # ls *tz*
> ls: No match.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?  I looked through the kernel config options and
> nothing jumped out at me as the thing to change.

The devices will be *mt0, not *tz0 (for Mag Tape).

Simon.