Hey all...

I'm having a small problem with the /dev subdirectory and
the device files/links for the DAC960 raid controller. From the install
itself, the files under /dev/rd were not properly linked and
the first reboot failed with a fsck error, because it couldn't actually
find the first partition at all... I got around this by changing
the fstab to avoid the links altogether, and that bypasses
that problem, but now I don't have "standard" partition names
for a raid sub-system. To illustrate:

Originally this is what I had through ls on /dev/rd
lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root           13 Jun 30  2002 c0d0 -> rd/disc0/disc
lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root           14 Jun 30  2002 c0d0p1 -> 
rd/disc0/part1
lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root           14 Jun 30  2002 c0d0p2 -> 
rd/disc0/part2
lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root           14 Jun 30  2002 c0d0p3 -> 
rd/disc0/part3
lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root           14 Jun 30  2002 c0d0p4 -> 
rd/disc0/part4
lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root           14 Jun 30  2002 c0d0p5 -> 
rd/disc0/part5
drwxr-xr-x    1 root     root            0 Jan  1  1970 disc0/

as you can see from this, the links are pointing wrongly to
rd/disc0/* instead of just disc0/*

I've tried to look through the makedev files/devfs config files, but I'm
unable to find where the config would be to change these links just to disc0
etc... I can just make a link with "ln -sf . rd" and that fixes the problem
momentarily, but sometimes on bootup the links in devfs get reconstructed
and I lose my partitions again. That's why I changed the fstab
to instead point directly to the /dev/rd/disc0/part1 file instead to the
/dev/rd/c0d0p1 as it was configured originally by mandrake install.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Sadin Nurkic


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