On November 18, 2003 05:58 pm, J. Nyhuis wrote: > Greetings, > > I apologize for asking a stupid question, but which devices in > /dev would correspond to a tape drive? The drive is a Sony AIT-100 > installed on an i86 RH9 box. > Has anyone written (having dealt with this before) a script to > check each device to see if it coorresponds to actual hardware or is just > there for show? > > Thanks in advance, > John Nyhuis > Cell Systems Initiative > University of Washington > cabal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Hi John, if you have a single scsi tape drive is should be /dev/st0 (scsi tape 0) The devices listed in /dev are there to support whatever you may want to attach to your system (about 7500 of them). Each file corresponds to a device which you may need to access directly or via a mount point. Whether the device currently exists on your system is really irrelivent unless you are so short of space that the 1/2 MB they take up is an issue :) -- Pete Nesbitt, rhce -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
