Thanks for explaining how to check the ATTRS value! The rules file works
well now. Awesome!
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 6:50 PM Adam Nielsen <a.niel...@shikadi.net> wrote:
> > I ended up figuring out on accident my udev rules file did work, I had
> just
> > been trying to test it by restarting the service but it took a full
> reboot
> > for the new rules to get loaded.
>
> Normally you do something like this[1]:
>
> # udevadm control --reload-rules && udevadm trigger
>
> > *SUBSYSTEM=="scsi_generic", SUBSYSTEMS=="scsi", ATTRS{type}!="8",
>
> This will match all devices that are not type 8 (so everything except
> autochangers).
>
> > This ends up creating symlinks for every sg* device, not just the tape
> > drives, so ideally it would be nice to figure out how to filter it.
>
> If you want to restrict it to a particular type, you can view udev
> attributes for specific devices like this:
>
> # udevadm info -a -n /dev/sch0 | grep type
> ATTRS{type}=="8"
>
> # udevadm info -a -n /dev/nst0 | grep type
> ATTRS{type}=="1"
>
> Here it suggests that changing the rule from type 8 to type 1 will only
> match tape drives. On my system a DVD drive is 5 and a hard drive is
> 0, so I guess using type 1 should work for tapes only.
>
> Cheers,
> Adam.
>
> [1]:
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/39370/how-to-reload-udev-rules-without-reboot
>
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