On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 15:09, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Sven Heinicke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
