September 2001
Intermediate to advanced
580 pages
12h 30m
English
book
Linux for IBM eServer zSeries and S/390: Distributions
by Michael MacIsaac, Ronald Annuss, Wolfgang Engel, Chris Gombola, Timothy Nunes, Mark Post, Don Stubbs, Egon Terwedow, Craig Vernon
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Chapter 23. Backup and restore 473
# mknod /dev/rtibm1 c 254 1 (second rewinding character device)
# mknod /dev/ntibm1 c 254 1 (second non-rewinding character device)
# mknod /dev/btibm1 b 254 1 (second block device)
...
23.2.12 Load the tape driver
We loaded the tape driver via the command:
# /sbin/modprobe tape390
Because we were running Linux under z/VM and there is only one tape drive
assigned, the tape driver associates /dev/ntibm0 with the physical tape drive at
address B38.
23.2.13 Test the tape driver
At this point, we had rebuilt the kernel with tape support, created devices in the
/dev directory, and added the tape390 module.
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