On Sun, Jul 25, 1999 at 02:57:15PM -0500, Zach Coombes, AMD Austin wrote:
> I'm running Suse 6.1 with 2.3.11, an Ultra66, and an Ultra33 (masochism
> runs in my family). I've noticed that the ide device files only go up to
> hdh, allowing only 4 controllers to be accessed at a time. This freezes
> out my motherboard/chipset controller.
You can add the hdi/hdj/hdk/hdl devices manually using mknod. See
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt
> Is there an automated way to scan the installed hardware and extend this
> list? I know I can mknod till the cows come home (moo), but I haven't
> figured out how to get the major numbers for the additional controllers.
Unfortunately the MAKEDEV script in /dev doesn't know about those devices,
so you do have to add them by hand.
Ahh... Second thought: What about if you added those devices to the
MAKEDEV script, and submitted the changes back to the author :)
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