That worked perfectly thank you very much Gary
----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith McGavin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 11:03 AM Subject: Re: device sr0 > On Thu, Jan 20, at 07:55:40PM, Gary Durey wrote: > > In the /dev directory are files sr0, sr1 etc to sr15. > > How can I increase the number of these to sr42 > > Gary, > > the /dev/MAKEDEV script only creates sr0-sr15 so you > have to make /dev/sr16 - sr42 manually using the 'mknod' > command. see man mknod for details. > > as root in /dev- > > 'mknod -m 660 sr16 b 11 16' > 'mknod -m 660 sr17 b 11 17' > .......................... > .......................... > 'mknod -m 660 sr43 b 11 43' > > > hth, > keith. >
