Linux-Setup Digest #839, Volume #19 Mon, 16 Oct 00 16:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: kgcc and RH7 (Hal Burgiss)
crash due to segmentation ("Dante")
Where I can get SuSe 7.0 iso? (Ismo Laitinen)
Re: Newbie: Insall failure signal 11 (Travis Gilbert)
SCSI cd-rom limits (mknod help needed) (james terris)
more than 26 SCSI disks ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Beginners guide to qmail. (Rod Smith)
Re: Dual boot Win2k & Linus (Rod Smith)
Re: Where I can get SuSe 7.0 iso? (Rod Smith)
Re: Audio support for AOpen AW200 (Jerry McBride)
Re: printing in Slackware 7.1 (Kevin Croxen)
Re: ADSL on RedHat 7.0 (moonie;))
any freeware partition software for win98? (Peter Bismuti)
Re: Hardware accelerated OpenGL for RIVA TNT? (moonie;))
can't install Mandrake V7.1 (Tom De Pollo)
Re: Minimal embedded linux? (Wolfgang Denk)
mkswap fails on loopback devices ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: RH 7.0, Linuxconf and Samba ("Paul Mackenzie")
Re: more than 26 SCSI disks (B'ichela)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: kgcc and RH7
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 16:14:30 GMT
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 10:42:57 -0400, Alex Deucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have redhat 7 installed and am trying to get the test kernels to
>compile. I have heard that there are issues with gcc 2.96. I have kgcc
>installed, but I'm not sure how to use it. I have tried the following
>and it still seems to be using gcc. Also when I do use gcc (not kgcc),
>the kernel compiles but it takes about 4-5 times as long as it did under
>RH 6.1. The kernel even boots, but several modules fail to work.
>
>Here's what I have tried:
>
>1. Changing "hostcc" in the top level Makefile to kgcc
Not the right place.
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/gotchas/7.0/gotchas-7-6.html (gcc)
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Hal B
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From: "Dante" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: crash due to segmentation
Date: 16 Oct 2000 16:17:22 GMT
Reply-To: "Dante" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
As absolute beginner I've installed RH 6.1 and I've the message after
enligtenment process end:
"(=) Application 'gnome help browser' (process 566" [or 584 or 823 or 724
and so on]") has crashed due to a fatal error (segmentation fault)"
and subsequent:
/!\ "gnome help browser no response to the save yourself command. The
program may be slow, stopped or broken, you may wait etc..."
same messages (sometimes) later for "GMC" and "gnorp-pm" and "gedit"
my machine:
PC 486DX100 intel MBrd Pride, 24 Meg ram, two Hard disk bus PCI. Sound
blaster 16.
On hda1 win95 fat 32 with lilo on,
On hdb:
hdb1 Boot Primary linuxext2 62M
hdb5 logical linuxext2 524M
hdb6 logical Fat16 109M
hdb7 logical linuxswap 34M
some messages on boot:
"dpm Bios not found"
"change root old root has dcount=1"
"mount root ext2 filename"
"sound device *FAILED" (sometimes)
giving "dmesg" on terminal I've:
"VFS disk change detected"
I've make a disaster during the first install attempt (garbage on hd during
formatting, I've read the linux documentation and faqs about system folders
to create but do not realize that disk druid - or othe installation process
makes them automatically); the install process wanted to create swap space
on disk suddenly ...
On third attempt I've had a (quite) successful (in the sense that I've
finished it) installation but the system is * very * slow in loading
programs.
I think there is some mistake in HD addressing or system folder hosting ...
Thanks for your attention
Dante - Milano - Italia
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From: Ismo Laitinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Where I can get SuSe 7.0 iso?
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 19:27:15 +0300
I have searched SuSe 7.0 isos but haven't found them. Do they even
exist?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Travis Gilbert)
Subject: Re: Newbie: Insall failure signal 11
Date: 16 Oct 2000 16:17:48 GMT
Have you tried expert install? It lets you specify special parameters for SCSI
devices. I myself am a newbie and have had problems with sig11, I hate that
message...oh well. I'd try the expert install, or even text -expert install
for RedHat. I was finally able to install RH6.1 using text -expert.
Hope it helps,
Travis
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
>Good thinking, but been there and done that. The CD is not an ATAPI or EIDE
>
>drive, but SCSI-2 (as I said, off the Adaptec 2940 UW-Pro). There are no
>jumpers to be set. It is device 3, and the scanner device 5. It works fine
>with
>Windows 98 and boot messages are OK. As matter of fact, during the Linux
>install, the RPM package finds the Adptex and loads the 78XX driver for
>same.
>
>Tried the Gentus distro that came with the Motherboard. Turns out it is
>also
>using RedHat and RPM. Same Signal 11 message and aborted install. This is
>getting frustrating! <G>
>
>A-
>
>Vilmos Soti wrote:
>
>> "Arthur A. Simon, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > ABIT BE6-II mainboard
>> ...
>> > Depending whether I'm trying to install off the CD or off the
>> > boot disk, either I get a failure to find RH-Linux on the CD
>> > (I've checked with dos and explorer, so I know its there)
>>
>> Check if the CD is installed correctly. For example, check if
>> the jumpers which describe master/slave/alone are set correctly
>> on the CD and on the other disk if exists.
>>
>> > OR, I get a message to the effect that Signal 11
>>
>> http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11
>>
>> > I guess I'll install either the Caldera Openlinux, Turbolinux, Gentus
>> > Linux (came with
>> > the mainboard), or RH 5.0, all of which I already have.
>>
>> Try the one which came with your motherboard.
>>
>> Vilmos
>
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From: james terris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI cd-rom limits (mknod help needed)
Date: 16 Oct 2000 16:54:55 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hey, I've got a redhat 6.0 machine which I'm trying to mount
fourteen SCSI cd-roms on but I'm running into a problem with
mounting more than nine.
Here are the steps I'm going through in trying to get the
tenth cd-rom working.
First I enter this command:
# mknod /dev/scd9 b 11 9
then add this line to /etc/fstab:
/dev/scd9 /mnt/cd9 iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
then type the command:
# mount /mnt/cd9
but I get the following error:
mount: /dev/scd9 has wrong major or minor number
What could be the problem?
The first seven cd-roms on my adaptec 1515 card work fine
and the first two on my 1542 seem ok but when I try to
mount the third to seventh I get the same error.
thx,
james
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: more than 26 SCSI disks
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 16:58:54 GMT
Hello,
I have a linux machine (SUSE 6.4, Kernel 2.2.14) with 30 SCSI Disks
attached, but I can access only 26.
The scsi driver detects all 30 disks with the corresponding device
(sda-sdz, sdaa-sdad), but only registers the first 26 disks (sda-sdz).
How can I tell linux to access the remaining disks ?
Cheers
Bernhard
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Before you buy.
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Beginners guide to qmail.
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 17:08:23 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <8sebbh$t6a$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Hi,
>
> Is their a place where I can get a beginners guide to qmail, which will
> take me through step by step on how to install, configure and run qmail
> on linux. (RH 7.0)
>
> I've never dealt with qmail before, nor do I know which packages are
> required to run.
There's a fair amount of information on the qmail web site,
http://www.qmail.org. I also recently saw a listing at Amazon.com for a
book on qmail. I think it was called _qmail for Linux_ by Blum (who also
wrote _sendmail for Linux_). I haven't read _qmail for Linux_, though,
so I don't know if it's any good.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Dual boot Win2k & Linus
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 17:05:57 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <lQqG5.1886$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Luc Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi
>
> Has anyone had any problems running Win2k Pro and Linux (Mandrake, Red Hat,
> etc..)?
>
> Any experiences would be helpful.
One of my systems currently runs Win2K along with two different Linux
distributions. Win2K is mostly just like WinNT in terms of its
multi-boot capabilities. Personally, I'm using System Commander as the
primary boot loader, with LILO and W2K's OS Loader functioning as
secondary boot loaders for Linux and Win2K, respectively. It's possible
to use either LILO or OS Loader as a primary boot loader, though. Once
both OSs are running, there are also lots of possibilities and issues
concerning shared filesystems, data exchange, etc. There are dozens of
FAQs and HOWTOs covering specific issues scattered about the Internet. I
cover a lot of it in my book, _The Multi-Boot Configuration Handbook_
(http://www.rodsbooks.com/multiboot/). Some Linux books also have
multi-boot information, but it's usually geared towards dual-booting
with Win9x systems.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Where I can get SuSe 7.0 iso?
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 17:10:47 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ismo Laitinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have searched SuSe 7.0 isos but haven't found them. Do they even
> exist?
The closest I've encountered is a "live" filesystem CD from
http://www.linuxiso.org. This appears to be a bootable SuSE 7.0 system
on CD, though, not an installation CD-ROM image.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jerry McBride)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Audio support for AOpen AW200
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 18:29:32 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Chris Sutcliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi All,
>
> I'm trying to configure my RH 7.0 system to use my AOpen AW200 sound
>card. The AOpen web site mentions that 4front and alsa have support for
>the card, but as of yet I haven't been able to make it work.
>
> The card docs say it's compatible with SB Pro and Windows Sound
>System, but I haven't been able to make it work that way either. Does
>anyone out there have any ideas?
>
I just did some research for you and... you ain't gonna' be happy. As far as I
can tell, there are no ALSA or OSS drivers for the AS9200 sound chip that is
used on your AW200 sound card. Aopen does claim linux support, just like you
said, but it's not there...
The only thing I can suggest is... get Aopen to tell you what chip the AS9200
is compatible with so you can get drivers that have a chance to work with your
card.
I really feel for you as I JUST bought an AOPEN AW230 last week, because there
were ALSA drivers for it and not the AW200.
That been said... you can always spend you free time trying to get the sound
blaster stuff to work... it's a shot in the dark.
You could always send your AW200 back and get an AW230 from Indelible Blue.
Only $22.00 plus shipping and has drivers available in Linux, UNIX, OS/2, DOS
and most all flavors of windows...
--
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* Registered Linux User Number 185956 *
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin Croxen)
Subject: Re: printing in Slackware 7.1
Date: 16 Oct 2000 18:07:28 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dave Lund wrote:
>I am still basically a newbie when it comes to printing in Linux. I
>have a Canon BJC-210 on lp2 and a plain dot-matrix on lp0. How would I
>go about configuring this setup? I also want to be able to print from
>my windows boxes through samba. I figure that i will need to configure
>apsfilter (but I don't know how). I would also like to enable the
>Auto-Install feature for the windows drivers.
>
>If anyone can help, it would be greatly appreciated.
>Thank you.
>
> \###/
> (o~o)
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Printing is a big subject. Add to it printing from Windows via SMB and you
have two distinct subjects that are a tad too large for usenet answers.
Your first step is getting printing in general working in Slack 7.1 I
would recommend carefully reading the printing-howto at (among other
places) www.linux.org
Once you have linux-only printing set up and feel fairly comfortable
mucking around with your /etc/printcap file and the stuff in
/var/spool/lpd/, then you'll be ready for the extra frustration of setting
up samba printing through this machine. Check out the smb-howto at the
same address, in particular section 9, " Sharing A Linux Printer with
Windows Machines"
Re. automatic print-driver updating, you might wish to check at
www.samba.org; AFAIK auto driver updating was an NT-only feature that was
never implemented even in Win9x. I'm not certain it is supported in SAMBA.
Cheers,
--Kevin
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From: moonie;) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ADSL on RedHat 7.0
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 14:51:56 -0400
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Pierre wrote:
>I'm trying to use the ADSL-start program to connect to my existing DSL line.
>It's saying I'm connected but when I try to surf on Netscape I can't see any
>web pages.
>My Ethernet card is: 3com EtherLink XL TPO (3C900B-TPO)
>Any ideas? Please help.
Do you have your DNS servers and Gateway set up correctly?
--
moonie ;)
Registered Linux User #175104
http://counter.li.org
KDE2
Kernel 2.4.0-test5
XFree86 4.0 Nvidia .94 drivers
RAID 0 Striped
Test-Pilots-R-Us ;)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Subject: any freeware partition software for win98?
Date: 16 Oct 2000 18:52:55 GMT
I want to do a dual boot and I believe that when using win98 you have to
install it first and then repartition using PartitionMagic or some other
type of partitioning software from within win98. Is there any such type
of software that is freeware/shareware?
Or, is there any alternative to the method above? Any way to install Linux
first and then win98? I tried it before and it hosed a lot of my Linux stuff.
I was able to recover it but I was told that I got lucky.
Thanks
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From: moonie;) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Hardware accelerated OpenGL for RIVA TNT?
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 15:00:16 -0400
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Erik Max Francis wrote:
>I have an old RIVA TNT that I'd like to get running with
>hardware-accelerated OpenGL so that I can experiment. Unfortunately, I
>haven't had much luck getting it working. I upgraded binutils to 5.10
>(since I run SMP), then I upgraded to XFree86 4.0.1, installed the
>NVIDIA kernel drives and then the GLX modules and libraries. Nothing
>happened (that is, everything still ran slow). I looked in the FAQ,
>where it suggested eliminating references to libMesaGL, which I did (by
>pointing libMesaGL -> libGL), at which point running a simple OpenGL app
>(I chose /usr/lib/Mesa/samples/wave, which works fine, albeit slowly,
>with Mesa only) caused the entire screen to blank. Everything's still
>running, the machine is still alive, it's just that the screen is blank
>from that point on. Only rebooting makes the screen come back (at least
>that I could tell; killing X didn't do anything).
>
>I checked in the TNT readme in the GLX package, and it suggested looking
>up the type of memory in the card and hacking that into the kernel
>module and reinstalling, which I did, and still no luck -- the screen
>still hangs.
>
>Any ideas what the problem is? Am I doing the right stuff, but it just
>may be that I have one of the RIVA TNTs that doesn't work properly (the
>TNT readme in GLX warned of this)?
>
>--
> Erik Max Francis / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://www.alcyone.com/max/
> __ San Jose, CA, US / 37 20 N 121 53 W / ICQ16063900 / &tSftDotIotE
>/ \ Love is a hole in the heart.
>\__/ Ben Hecht
> Official Omega page / http://www.alcyone.com/max/projects/omega/
> The official distribution page for the popular Roguelike, Omega.
I used the same instructions to get a TNT working as I did my TNT2U and my sons
TNT2 M64 PCI. Here they are (you will need to use XFree86 4.01 because nvidia
only lists drivers for it, no 4.0 anymore)
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/distros/mandrake/mdk_nvidia.html
--
moonie ;)
Registered Linux User #175104
http://counter.li.org
KDE2
Kernel 2.4.0-test5
XFree86 4.0 Nvidia .94 drivers
RAID 0 Striped
Test-Pilots-R-Us ;)
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From: Tom De Pollo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: can't install Mandrake V7.1
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 19:10:04 -0000
I have purchased this version and have 2 hard drives (13Gb & 15Gb) I have
broken my 2 drives down into 2Gb sections each (c through o) I have erased
e & f to put Linux on drive 1 and it will not install. Sometimes it gets
to putting the programs on (about half way) and then goes back to reset
(just like I was turning the computer on again!)
Any ideas?
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Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.arch.embedded
From: Wolfgang Denk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Minimal embedded linux?
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 18:19:01 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Guy Macon) writes:
>Wolfgang Denk wrote:
...
>>Using this method, on a PowerPC I can build a web server demo with
>>(compressed) kernel image of 324774 bytes, and a (compressed) ramdisk
>>image of 674939 bytes. This fits easily in a 1 MB flash chip (it even
>>leaves enough room for a small boot monitor). Um, and this contains a
>>payload of 566 kB web pages...
>>
>>[See http://www.denx.de/embedded-ppc-en.html for images of the demo
>>system hardware.]
>How does your demo compare in functionality to what QNX put on a
>1.44 MB Floppy ( http://www.qnx.com/demodisk/ )?
Not very well, giving your list of criteria.
>POSIX realtime OS
Full Linux kernel; I guess that's comparable...
>Full windowing system,
This is something where one could start a discussion (for instance,m
what "full" windowing system means - I doubt it's everything that
comes with any X11 release).
>Drivers for many common video cards
>HTML 3.2 browser,
No. But I have >560kB of web pages that could be replaced by some
code.
>Embedded web server,
Yes.
>Internet dialer
>Drivers for many modems
No. But we have Ethernet.
>TCP/IP stack
Yes, of course.
Please - I don't want to start a "my system is better than yours"
discussion. All I wanted to point out that IMHO it's better to build
embedded systems by adding just the needed components, instead of
starting with any "full release" and removing unneeded parts.
Wolfgang Denk
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Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux
Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Plan to throw one away. You will anyway."
- Fred Brooks, "The Mythical Man Month"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: mkswap fails on loopback devices
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 19:27:24 GMT
I'm trying to setup swap on a loopback filesystem,
and mkswap is failing:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/.swap0 bs=1024k count=16
16+0 records in
16+0 records out
# losetup /dev/loop1 /.swap0
# mkswap /dev/loop1
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 16773120
bytes
mkswap: fsync failed
# losetup -d /dev/loop1
# mkswap /.swap0
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 16773120
bytes
#
Looks to me like loopback doesn't support fsync.
Ideas/workarounds?
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From: "Paul Mackenzie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 7.0, Linuxconf and Samba
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 08:54:08 +1300
Least your linuxconf is working, I installed RH 7.0 three times now and
linuxconf has a kfm error unable to execute.
"Dong Dong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> You can do that by turning on the "Samba" modules by following the menus
> below in "Linuxconf":
>
> Control
> Control files and systems
> Configure Linuxconf modules
>
>
>
> Adam H. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just installed RH7, and noticed that their is no longer any options to
> > modify the Samba settings in LinuxConf. Anyone know where this has gone?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Adam
> >
> >
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B'ichela)
Subject: Re: more than 26 SCSI disks
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 14:51:36 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 16:58:54 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have a linux machine (SUSE 6.4, Kernel 2.2.14) with 30 SCSI Disks
>attached, but I can access only 26.
>
>The scsi driver detects all 30 disks with the corresponding device
>(sda-sdz, sdaa-sdad), but only registers the first 26 disks (sda-sdz).
>
>How can I tell linux to access the remaining disks ?
Do you have /dev/sda[a-d] scsi devices? if not you will need
to make them with mknod. Since my Linux 2.0.38 kernel does not go
beyound 16 SCSI units I am unable to tell you how to access the rest.
Look in your /usr/src/linux/Documenation/device.txt file for the
major/minor numbers to feed into mknod for adding devices sdaa-sdad.
--
B'ichela
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