On Tuesday 07 October 2003 09:50 am, Dalton Calford wrote: > I have a new ide drive in my system, and it is recognized by harddrake2, > but, it does not show up in /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/ (the disc > special block file is not there) > and obviously the link /dev/hdd is not there either. > > Disk drake does not see the drive, but it is in /proc/ide/ > > What are the steps to create the block files > > (I know that mknod does it, I just don't know the options and the man and > info pages are useless) > > thanks
Not sure that you can do this manually with Mandrake without a lot of trouble. If you are running the new hardware detection daemon at startup and it is not detecting the harddrive, it will probably just remove the block file at every reboot, even after you create it. I have a similar problem when I hook up an IDE drive to my ide 3/4 - raid controller on the motherboard but haven't needed to mess around with it enough to make it work yet. You sure that you have the jumpers set right on the drive. If you are using cable select, it is possible that Mandrake is simply misreading the slave/master settings and ignoring the conflicting drive. Or they could actually be set wrong with both set to Master. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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