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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
