On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 08:51:29PM -0800, Jason Parvu wrote: > I have a Sparc Storage array 101 with 6 drives installed connected to a > Sparcstation 5 running Woody 3.0R2. I have got as far as loading the kernel > module and the box sees the array and installed drives but run I attempt to > run fdisk to partition the drives it returns "Unable to open /dev/sd*" when > I attempt it on any of the drives. I ruled out hardware because I can > access the drive fine from Solaris. Does anyone have any ideas as to what I > am doing wrong? Below is the boot messages and my attempts to partition the > disks > > -Jason <Big Snip> > > sparc5:~# fdisk /dev/sdj > Unable to open /dev/sdj >
Jason, By default, Linux doesn't create devices for all the possible scsi disks, I think it creates them up to /dev/sdh. Check to see if the devices exist (ls -l /dev/sd*), and if they don't, make them by running cd /dev (cd to /dev first, or it will make devices in the current directory) ./MAKEDEV sdi sdj sdk sdl ... Regards, Richard -- I don't think [being chief software architect of Windows] is something to be particularly proud of. - Linus Torvalds
