On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 08:50:07PM +0100, Christian Bricart wrote: > Richard Fish wrote: > >On 2/21/06, Christian Bricart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Hi, > >>So I have /dev/hda through /dev/hdl which are ok. But the mappings to > >>/dev/discs/discX with X > 7 are missing. > > > > > ><snip> > > > >>I wanted to file a bug report, but I'm not certain if it's actually > >>udev's fault. > > > > > >Yes, it is udev's fault, but it is not a bug. The /dev/discs nodes > >were a convention of devfs, and _never_ standard. > > Re-checked.. /dev/discs seems to be based on /dev/ide/-mapping and yet > they are not complete: > > magrathea ~ # find /dev/ide -name disc -o -name cd > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/disc > /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd > /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/disc > /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/disc > /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target1/lun0/disc > /dev/ide/host4/bus0/target0/lun0/disc > /dev/ide/host4/bus1/target0/lun0/disc > /dev/ide/host4/bus1/target1/lun0/disc > > so /dev/ide/host/bus0/target1/lun0/disc (which ought to be /dev/hdj) is > missing there. > But see the listing in sysfs: > > magrathea ~ # find /sys/bus/ide/drivers/ide* -type l | sort -k 7 -t / > /sys/bus/ide/drivers/ide-disk/0.0 > /sys/bus/ide/drivers/ide-disk/0.1 > /sys/bus/ide/drivers/ide-cdrom/1.0 > /sys/bus/ide/drivers/ide-disk/1.1 > /sys/bus/ide/drivers/ide-disk/2.0 > /sys/bus/ide/drivers/ide-disk/2.1 > /sys/bus/ide/drivers/ide-disk/4.0 > /sys/bus/ide/drivers/ide-disk/4.1 > /sys/bus/ide/drivers/ide-disk/5.0 > /sys/bus/ide/drivers/ide-disk/5.1
Look in /sys/block/ for your block devices, not in the ide specific directory. > and the listing from dmesg: > > magrathea ~# dmesg | grep ^hd | grep drive > hda: Maxtor 4D040H2, ATA DISK drive > hdb: SAMSUNG SP1614N, ATA DISK drive > hdc: IDE-CD R/RW 16x10A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > hdd: Maxtor 92041U4, ATA DISK drive > hde: Maxtor 4G120J6, ATA DISK drive > hdf: Maxtor 96147H6, ATA DISK drive > hdi: SAMSUNG SP1614N, ATA DISK drive > hdj: IC35L040AVER07-0, ATA DISK drive > hdk: SAMSUNG SP1614N, ATA DISK drive > hdl: SAMSUNG SP1614N, ATA DISK drive > > And hdparm iterates through /dev/ide/* if found... > Is /dev/ide according to LSB? Or is this also supposed to vanish? ;-) /dev/ide is _not_ according to the LSB. It's up to the hdparm authors if they still wish to support this obsolete interface or not. thanks, greg k-h -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
