Re: [PARPORT] HP 5GB


grant@torque.net
Wed, 3 Mar 1999 13:41:25 -0500 (EST)


> At the boot time it recognizes HP COLORADO 5Gb drive saying
> pt0:epat 1.01, Shuttle EPAT chip c6 at 0x378 mode 5 (EPP-32), delay 1
> and tape is spinning to give
> pt0: HP COLORADO 5GBe, master, blocksize 512, 2458 MB.
> According to archives I should see it working as I run
> tar -cvf /dev/pt0 /home.
> However, I see tar working and writing a file /dev/pt0, HP does not move
> at all.
> Do I miss something?

Yes, you did not create the device node for /dev/pt0. Look in
/usr/src/linux/drivers/block/paride for the "mkd" script. Make it
executable and run it.

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