On Thursday 10 May 2001 14:58, you wrote:
> I need some more devices in /dev, and need to know how to get
> them.
>
> I have a CD-ROM server which has 2 SCSI cards. The first has
> three hard drives, a tape drive and two cd drives on it. The second
> has 7 cd drives on it in an external tower.
>
> The last two cd drives in the tower don't work (I assume) because
> there are no devices for them in the /dev directory. There are only 7
> cd devices in the /dev directory, and I need 9.
>
> What's the easiest way to create these 2 additional files?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
> Bruce Endries
> Bruce Endries Consulting
> (607) 433-2677
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OK you need the devices /dev/scd8 /dev/scd9
you make them as follows
# mknod -m 2 /dev/scd8 b 11 8
# mknod -m 2 /dev/scd9 b 11 9
Then you make entries in /etc/fstab and so on
man mknod
and
file:/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.4.2/devices.txt
are your friends.
Civileme
