* Sven Heinicke (sven@research.nj.nec.com) [021104 11:54]: > With woody, I got a system with 20 IDE drives (5 IDE cards). The kernel > in finding all of them but /dev/MAKEDEV seems to only know how to make > up to /dev/hdl: > > ds2:/dev# ./MAKEDEV hdl > ds2:/dev# ./MAKEDEV hdm > ./MAKEDEV: don't know how to make device "hdm" > > but I need up to /dev/hdt, I think I know what the major and minor > numbers to use as I have another distro (Mandrake) running on a similar > system that figured out all the drive letters but I wish to bet a better > way to figure this out then "install another Linux and look" in the > docs. > > Where do I look, even in the code if necessary, to find this out? The best place to start is /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt (or equivalent, wherever you may keep your kernel source). Also, in case it helps: brw-rw---- 1 root disk 88, 0 Aug 30 2001 /dev/hdm brw-rw---- 1 root disk 88, 64 Aug 30 2001 /dev/hdn brw-rw---- 1 root disk 89, 0 Aug 30 2001 /dev/hdo brw-rw---- 1 root disk 89, 64 Aug 30 2001 /dev/hdp brw-rw---- 1 root disk 90, 0 Aug 30 2001 /dev/hdq brw-rw---- 1 root disk 90, 64 Aug 30 2001 /dev/hdr brw-rw---- 1 root disk 91, 0 Aug 30 2001 /dev/hds brw-rw---- 1 root disk 91, 64 Aug 30 2001 /dev/hdt good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- "If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise we do not believe in it at all." --Noam Chomsky
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