On Saturday 05 Mar 2005 9:50 am, Soumen Dass wrote:
Login using knoppix. Note down the major & minor device no. by doing ls of /dev/st0 (or whatever it shows up as). Login to your regular installation & try doing a mknod (man mknod would help).
you are 100% right - knoppix is the standard diagnostic tool for setting up cranky hardware