Jeff, I've seen the very same thing with some playing I was doing with an IDE flash disk.
I think there is some magic entry that you can put into the devfsd.conf file, but i've never tried. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Jeff Mock wrote: > I apologize if this has already been covered, I'm new to the list > and didn't find anything about this in the archive. > > I'm running LTSP on a VIA mini-ITX motherboard and having a great time. > I'm booting using the PXE ROM in the BIOS and it's just great. > > I'm playing around with adding a compact flash card plugged into an > IDE connector through an adapter and having a problem with devfsd > (I think). The CF card looks just like an IDE disk drive to the system. > > I add the following lines in the lts.conf: > > MODULE_01 = ide-mod > MODULE_02 = ide-disk > MODULE_03 = ide-probe-mod > > This loads the IDE drivers and when booting I get console messages > indicating that the box is probing the IDE bus and finds the SanDisk > CF card. > > The problem is that there is no /dev/hda device created in /dev. As > I understand devfsd it should create the device when it is > probed by the driver. Interestingly, devfsd does create the > directory structure /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/, but it doesn't > create the special block device file at the bottom of the tree. > > If I manually do a mknod and create /dev/hda everything works fine, > I can create a filesystem on the CF card and everything is great. > > Does anyone know what might be going on here? > > jeff > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net > -- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
