Re: creating /dev/hd[m-t]
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 02:54:09PM -0500, Sven Heinicke wrote:
> 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?
man mknod, I'd think. Since you know the major, minor numbers and the
device names you are good to go ...
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