Re: creating /dev/hd[m-t]
On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 15:09, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> * 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
>
Great, I got it looking in the devices.txt. Devfs sounds like a good
idea too, but not for this system.
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