Many thanks to Dr. Marco Luchini for his answer. Original posting and his
response are below.
Cheers.
Rob
On Mon, 10 May 1999, Dr Marco Luchini wrote:
> Robert Kubarych writes:
> > Good morning.
> >
> > We would like to install a 9 track tape drive on our system. The system
> > is a DEC Alpha 4100 running DU4.0d.
> >
> > Am I correct that all that I need to do is power down, attach the tape
> > drive, verify at the console that the device is visible, reboot and
> > create the device files? (./MAKEDEV TZxx where xx is 8 X
> > bus + target). Or is a kernal rebuild necessary?
>
> Not necessary at this release. In fact, you don't really need the power
> down. Just connect a powered-off device, then power up, then use
> something like scu scan edt to alert the OS that there's a new device,
> MAKEDEV and it's done. Though I agree that seeing it at the console
> level does given one a warm fuzzy feeling.
>
>
> Marco
>
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Robert K. Kubarych,
Asst. Director of Systems Admin. & Programming
Rockland Community College
Suffern, NY 10901
Phone: (914) 574-4799
Machine: DEC Alpha 4100 Phone: (914) 574-4799
OS: DU 4.0d Fax (914) 574 - 4354
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