Re: Ftape (or kernel?) bug in 2.1.85..

Henrik Storner (storner@image.dk)
Mon, 9 Feb 1998 08:29:14 +0100


Adam Heath <adam.heath@usa.net> wrote:

>On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Sergei Viznyuk wrote:

>> As appears, when I try to access /dev/qft0 like
>> e.g. tar -cf /dev/qft0
>> kerneld loads only ftape.o module but does not
>> load zftape.o module.

>The line you need is this:

>post-install ftape {insmod/modprobe} zftape

Actually

alias char-major-27 zftape

will do the job nicely, using the automatically generated module
dependencies. It will also allow kerneld to unload the zftape module
automatically, which your suggestion does not.

-- 
Henrik Storner
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