device file changed after reboot.

[Srinivas_14]

Hi,

I have a dlt tape drive attached to my HP9000-K580 system. Recently I rebooted my machine. After that I noticed that the patch of the dlt drive has been changed from /dev/rmt/3m to /dev/rmt/2m. I did not change the scsci id on the dlt tape drive. There is a device file in the directory /dev/scsci/3. Since the device file has been changed how can I create (/dev/scsci/2) new device files.

Thanks

[Cheryl Griffin]

Easiest thing to do is compare a lssf and ll on the devices (so you can get the major, minor number, then use mknod to create the device file:
# mknod {device name} {major#} {minor number}

example:
# mknod /dev/rmt/3 212 0x053100
(where 212 is the major number for my tape driver; verify that with lsdev)

Cheryl Griffin

[Geetha Alagappan]

Try a insf -e. This is useful for restoring special files if one or more have been removed