Colorado Memory Systems Tapes from boot floppies

[Michael R. Johnston]

In article <3569 at thebes.Thalatta.COM> campbell at Thalatta.COM (Bill Campbell) writes:
>I have been unable to access the CMS ``Jumbo'' tape drive from bootable
>floppies on Xenix 2.3.3.  Yes, I did make the boot floppies after
>installing the jtape drivers.
>
>When I try the command ``tar -tvf /dev/rmt0'' I get the message
>from tar that it cannot open /dev/rmt0.  Has anyone made this work?

You have to make the device files as well. It works for me once you do a 

	mknod /dev/rmt0 c 17 0


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