I have installed a compatible SCSI tape drive.   
   modinfo st  and  lsscsi show that the driver is working.   
   But if I do:   
    mt -f /dev/st0 status   
   it complains   
    /dev/st0: Permission denied   
   So I read in some RHEL forum that one needs:   
    mknod -m 666 /dev/st0 c 9 0   
   and this will enable user access rw-rw-rw-   
   However, mknod complains   
    mknod: `/dev/st0': File exists   
      
   So what must I do? Perhaps edit some arcane configuration file?   
      
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