RE: Maxtor IDE controller cards not working
Thanks ! I had just looked at man MAKEDEV (if all else fails look at the
instructions !) and noticed that MAKEDEV will only make devices from hda to
hdl - which would put a serious dent in my fileserver building efforts.
Once again, thanks.
Greg
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colin Watson [mailto:cjwatson@debian.org]
> Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 7:37 PM
> To: DebianUser List
> Subject: Re: Maxtor IDE controller cards not working
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 07:22:14PM -0500, Greg wrote:
> > Good catch, but the mistake was in the email. I did type
> MAKEDEV hdo and
> > MAKEDEV hdm on my pc and still no joy .. I really *wish* I had
> just typed a
> > typo ...
> >
> > I *think* that linux has a limit of 255 devices and perhaps I
> have reached
> > my limit. I will try deleting some of them and see.
>
> No, don't do that! There is no such limit (/dev is basically just an
> ordinary directory full of device nodes - there's nothing particularly
> magic in the kernel for it, unless you're using something like devfs or
> udev, which still doesn't have such a limit), and it'll be a pain
> restoring the device nodes you've deleted.
>
> This isn't a kernel problem at all. You just need to upgrade makedev so
> that it knows how to create that device node properly; the version in
> woody doesn't. Alternatively, do it by hand (laborious, but should
> work):
>
> mknod -m 0660 /dev/hdm b 88 0
> chown root:disk /dev/hdm
> for x in `seq 1 20`; do
> mknod -m 0660 /dev/hdm"$x" b 88 "$x"
> chown root:disk /dev/hdm"$x"
> done
>
> Likewise for hdo, but substitute 89 for 88.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
>
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