On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 12:00:19PM -0900, Christopher S. Swingley wrote: > Hi! > > I'm trying to set up a software RAID-5 machine with 9 IDE drives (1 > for the OS, 8 for a RAID-5 array) and a CD-ROM drive using Promise > IDE controllers. The kernel detects and identifies the geometry on > the drives (hda, c, e, g, i, k, m, o, q, s), but the device nodes in > /dev only go up to hdh. I looked in the /dev/MAKEDEV script, but it's > not clear to me what I'm supposed to do in order to get new devices, > and it looks like even if I could figure out how to add more than 'h' > drives, this script only goes up to 'l' anyway. > > Any suggestions? > Hi Chris, I think you can make the devices you need with mknod. Another alternative is to mount devfs and use devfs naming conventions to access the drives. -- Jerome
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