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
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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
> 
> 
> 
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