5.1 missing /dev/nrsa0 ?

David O'Brien obrien at freebsd.org
Wed Jul 2 18:10:06 PDT 2003


On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:02:26AM +0200, Karl M. Joch wrote:
> i have 2 compaq DLT tapes installed on an adaptec controller. dmesg 
> shows me sa0 and sa1 and mt erase and mt offline can access sa0 and sa1.
> 
> i found that MAKEDEV is no longer supported and the devices are created 
> on demand. but i miss /dev/nrsa0 and /dev/nrsa1 for amanda. this 2 are 
> not in /dev and are not created when e.g. running amlabel which would 
> label the tape.
> 
> do i oversee something?

The "r" raw desgination is gone in 5.0.  Please try /dev/nsa0 and
/dev/nsa1.


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