mkdev tape - remove ?

[davidshields]

SCO Openserver 5.0 - is there an opposite of mkdev tape ? How do I do an rmdev tape ?
I have a knackered DAT drive I want to replace but I would like to have a kernel clean of the original tape device.

I know, I know, its a dumb question, but I haven;t supported SCO Openserver for about 9 years !

 

[motoslide]

You would still run the same utility "mkdev tape" and select the Remove/Delete device.
However....
Older versions of SCO OpenServer were famous for getting confused about tape drives. In many cases, you ended up with a kernel which would no longer compile. If you are just replacing a DAT with another DAT (same SCSI ID), you shouldn't need to do anything. The "mkdev tape" command simply instructed the O/S that there was a tape drive on a specific SCSI adapter and a specific SCSI ID.