[Harry Zink]
> Not sure what this will help, except confirm again that these volumes aren't
> accessible, which was my question to start with.
question is "why?", answer is "no appropriate /dev entries"
> [root@gate src]# ls -l /dev/hdj1
> ls: /dev/hdj1: No such file or directory
> [root@gate src]# ls -l /dev/hdj
> ls: /dev/hdj: No such file or directory
> [root@gate src]# ls -l /dev/hdk
> ls: /dev/hdk: No such file or directory
> [root@gate src]# ls -l /dev/hdk1
> ls: /dev/hdk1: No such file or directory
That's why you can't fdisk (just as Gregory has pointed out before)... get
those created (see previous note as per MAKEDEV)... default setup is 4 IDE
controllers (ide[0-3]) which correspond do the 8 IDE devices hd[a-h]...
Judging by /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt, I'd say the major's
for these new devices should be 56 and 57, so my guess would be:
mknod /dev/hdj b 56 64
mknod /dev/hdj1 b 56 65
mknod /dev/hdk b 57 0
mknod /dev/hdk1 b 57 1
attached is what might be a working MAKEDEV patch... who knows.
Bleah,
James
--- /dev/MAKEDEV Thu Mar 2 16:35:20 2000
+++ /tmp/MAKEDEV Wed May 17 11:17:28 2000
@@ -188,6 +188,8 @@
ide1) echo hdc hdd ;;
ide2) echo hde hdf ;;
ide3) echo hdg hdh ;;
+ ide4) echo hdi hdj ;;
+ ide5) echo hdk hdl ;;
sd) echo sda sdb sdc sdd ;;
sr) echo scd0 ;;
st) echo st0 ;;
@@ -619,6 +621,28 @@
;;
hd[g-h])
major=`Major ide3 34` || continue
+ unit=`suffix $arg hd`
+ base=`index gh $unit`
+ base=`math $base \* 64`
+ makedev hd$unit b $major $base $disk
+ for part in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 # 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
+ do
+ makedev hd$unit$part b $major `expr $base + $part` $disk
+ done
+ ;;
+ hd[i-j])
+ major=`Major ide4 56` || continue
+ unit=`suffix $arg hd`
+ base=`index gh $unit`
+ base=`math $base \* 64`
+ makedev hd$unit b $major $base $disk
+ for part in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 # 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
+ do
+ makedev hd$unit$part b $major `expr $base + $part` $disk
+ done
+ ;;
+ hd[k-l])
+ major=`Major ide5 57` || continue
unit=`suffix $arg hd`
base=`index gh $unit`
base=`math $base \* 64`
