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? Someone else provided the values; you can create those device files with the 'mknod' command. -rob
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