Tibor Pittich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > > if i remember correcly, current driver works smoothly with cciss
> > > driver.  i do not remember what is the exact naming scheme, but it
> > > should be something like /dev/cciss/<FORGOT_DIR_NAME>/{disk,partX)
> > 
> > I am interested in exactly <FORGOT_DIR_NAME>
> 
> i have something like this:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/cciss/disc0]# ls -al
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x    1 root     root            0 Jan  1  1970 ./
> drwxr-xr-x    1 root     root            0 Jan  1  1970 ../
> brw-------    1 root     root     104,   0 Jan  1  1970 disc
> brw-------    1 root     root     104,   1 Jan  1  1970 part1
> ...

this looks like what i remembered
 
> > > so there *should* be no problems.
> > 
> > sure, but people reported that cciss driver in 2.6 does not create
> > any devfs entries. Which means it is a Mandrake specific patch.
> 
> hm, i think that this is not some mdk special voodoo. i have entries in
> /etc/makedev.d/cciss
> which contains something like:
> b $STORAGE             104   0  0   1 cciss/c0d0
> b $STORAGE             104   1  1   15 cciss/c0d0p%d 1
> b $STORAGE             104  16  0   1 cciss/c0d1
> b $STORAGE             104  17  1   15 cciss/c0d1p%d 1
> ...

/etc/makedev.d/c is for makedev (that is for static entries, not
dynamic ones from devfs) ...


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