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,
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