RE: Maxtor IDE controller cards not working
You are correct. Thanks. However I am now working on creating /dev/hd0 and
/dev/hdm (MAKEDEV only goes so far up the alphabet). I think mknod is the
answer.
Greg
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jamin W. Collins [mailto:jcollins@asgardsrealm.net]
> Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 1:43 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Maxtor IDE controller cards not working
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 12:11:05AM -0500, Greg wrote:
> >
> > I have a pc that I use as a fileserver and I have recently migrated it
> > from RH 7.3 to Debian Woody (with some stuff from Sarge and Sid in
> > it). I have 6 disks in the pc as follows:
> >
> > System/OS /dev/hda 4.2 GB
> > data /dev/hdo 40 GB
> > data /dev/hdm 80 GB
> > data /dev/hde 203 GB
> > data /dev/hdi 203 GB
> > data /dev/hdk 203 GB
> >
> > I want to set up 3 disk RAID 5 array using mdadm and software raid.
> > RH had no problem with it so I know it can be done. The disks that I
> > used are recognized on the box as hde, hdi, and hdk. I can use fdisk
> > to recognize hde, but fdisk will not recognize any other disk on the
> > pc. As you can see from the dmesg, I am using several Maxtor
> > controller cards (they came with the hard drives) - 1 hard drive per
> > bus, each set as a master. During startup the BIOS gives the
> > appropriate messages on the hard drives and the dmesg seems to suggest
> > that the system at least can identify them. However, I cannot use 4 of
> > the 6 disks in my pc. If I can mount and format them then I am sure I
> > can set up the RAID array on the 3 I use for a RAID array
>
> Have you checked to see if the device nodes exist in /dev? I suspect
> you will find that they don't. On the system I just checked it stops at
> /dev/hdh20, beyond that you would need to create them. Alternatively
> you could look into devfs.
>
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> Jamin W. Collins
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