On 29-Jul-99 Bob Jiggins wrote:
>
>> > Jay
>> >
>> > thanks for the suggestion - have tried this but the problem seems
>> > to be that the kernel won't recognise the presence of /dev/hdc - the
>> > above command returns 'no such device' !!
>> >
>> > cheers for the input!
>> >
>> > Bob
>>
>> ls -la /dev/hdc shows what?
>
> well ls -lai /dev/hdc returns
>
> 6268 brw-r-xr-x 2 root disk 22, 0 May 5 1998 /dev/hdc
>
>> Perhaps it's time for MAKEDEV?
>
> It seems to exist - just that the kernel doesn't recognise it. Chmod
> has no effect on recognising it either.
Hmm. I though all the /dev/hd*'s were supposed to be chmod 660. At any
rate, if you can't even chmod, you're not working as root. And if you
are... Heaven help your file system.
--
Hampton
