[NTLUG:Discuss] Tape Backup Question

[Carter B. Bennett]

Hi All,
I have a Iomega Easy 800 floppy tape drive installed on my computer. I have
in Red Hat 5.1 and 5.2 been able to use the:

mt -f /dev/ftape rewind

But now in RH 6.0 the message:

/dev/ftape: No Such Device

is returned. I have also tried "nftape" with the same results.
I am doing this as "root" user. Also nftape yealds the same results.

In the /dev dir nftape & ftape are links to nrft0 & rft0:

ftape - > rft0
nftape - > nrft0

both ftape & nftape have permissions of : lrwxrwxrwx
both rft0 & nrft0 have permissions of : crw_rw____

Am I doing something wrong or is something broken?