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From: jeff@hpuplca.nsr.hp.com (   Jeff Gruszynski  )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: 9144 device file
Message-ID: <410030@hpuplca.nsr.hp.com>
Date: 7 May 91 01:46:48 GMT
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> / hpuplca:comp.sys.hp / Shawn.Hayes@bbs.acs.unc.edu (Shawn Hayes) /  7:12 pm  May  3, 1991 /
> 
> Thanks to an incredibly bad streak of luck the device file for the 9144 tape
> drive on our HP 9000 has been deleted.  I know that I need to use mknod in 
> order to recreate it, but I must be missing a couple of steps as I have not
> been able to make it work.  What are the steps needed to recreate the
> /dev entry for a 9144 tape drive?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Shawn Hayes

for /dev/update.src on internal hpib at address 3:

	$ mknod /dev/update.src c 4 0x070300

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Jeff Gruszynski
T&M STE SE
Santa Clara Sales
Hewlett Packard