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Re: Max number of ide disk atteched



On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 12:14:17PM +0100, Lukovszki Csaba wrote:
> Dear Debian Users,
> 
> Since I have attached numerous disk to my server with debian lunux
> running on it, I had to face to the problem, my last devide is /dev/hdh.
> Unfortunatelly, I could not access to other two drives /dev/hdi and
> /dev/hdk. Could anybody help how can I set up it to be viewable.

mknod? I don't know if you've run out of major device numbers though.
Check /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt

One option is devfs - which is deprecated but works fine. My second HDD
on a RAID conrtoller was hdk and hdi at one time and I had no problem
mounting it. You'll need devfsd. Quick way to check if this will work 
is to mount devfs on /mnt, 'devfsd /mnt' and see if hd{i,k} is present.

There's also udev which is meant to replace devfs but I no no more of
it.

Brian

BTW: if you are using devfs with 2.6 it doesn't do devpts anymore. 
It has to be mounted seperatly. Its fun when you can't ssh into a box.



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