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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!mr.net!newshub.tc.umn.edu!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Create tape device (w/o reboot)? Date: 9 Aug 1996 20:16:28 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4ug6as$4l8@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4u8rlo$5kb@alba.roble.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E marquis@roble.com (Roger Marquis) wrote: > Is there some way to create a tape device on a system that was booted > w/o the physical device plugged in and turned on? In theory, scsi -r is supposed to do this. However, there's a chicken and egg problem in that you need at least one SCSI device that has already been configured at boot time (could be your disk, for example), and the current implementation is known to have several flaws so that it doesn't work on quite some controllers. It can even hang your entire SCSI bus, so be careful when testing. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)