At 11:20 PM 11/7/2000 +0100, jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de wrote:
>On  7 Nov, NetBSD Bob wrote:
>
> > I just got a pointer to delete my *st* devices and remake them
> > (I'm running 1.5B1 currently), in case some minor numbers are
> > off.  I will try that tonight.
>Hmmm? Hmmmmmm??? Lets have a look at the tape device nodes... tape
>_block_ devices [deleting them] ... so we have:
>---
>[root@Zimbo root]$ l /dev/*st[0-9]*
>crw-rw----  1 root  operator  60,  4 Nov  7 22:16 /dev/nrst0
>crw-rw----  1 root  operator  60,  5 Sep 27 20:10 /dev/nrst1
>crw-rw----  1 root  operator  60, 12 Sep 27 20:10 /dev/nrst8
>crw-rw----  1 root  operator  60, 13 Sep 27 20:10 /dev/nrst9
>crw-rw----  1 root  operator  60,  0 Sep 27 20:10 /dev/rst0
>crw-rw----  1 root  operator  60,  1 Sep 27 20:11 /dev/rst1
>crw-rw----  1 root  operator  60, 12 Sep 27 20:10 /dev/rst12
>crw-rw----  1 root  operator  60, 13 Sep 27 20:11 /dev/rst13
>crw-rw----  1 root  operator  60,  4 Sep 27 20:10 /dev/rst4
>crw-rw----  1 root  operator  60,  5 Sep 27 20:11 /dev/rst5
>crw-rw----  1 root  operator  60,  8 Sep 27 20:10 /dev/rst8
>crw-rw----  1 root  operator  60,  9 Sep 27 20:11 /dev/rst9
>---
>/dev/nrst0 == /dev/rst4 ???
>I think we have a buggy MAKEDEV. Can anyone point to the correct minor
>device numbers?

There was a buggy MAKEDEV but i fixed it months ago.  I have a
client uses 9inch scsi tape (and a DLT) and found/fixed that
a while ago.

I've been thinking of changing the unibus/massbus tape drives
to use the same minor encoding as scsi tape.
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