[NTLUG:Discuss] kernel sees CDROM on /dev/hdc during bootup, but can't mount it..

[Daniel Hauck]

Okay.

# mknod /dev/hdc b 22 0
# mknod /dev/hdc1 b 22 1
# mknod /dev/hdc2 b 22 2
# mknod /dev/hdc3 b 22 3 <continue this pattern until 16>

For more details, try "mknod --help"

The question here is how/when the mknod entry is made.  If it didn't see a
secondary slave at install time, then it might never have created an entry
for anything beyond /dev/hda devices.

I suspect you already see that hda is primary master, hdb is primary slave
and hdc is secondary master.


----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Geoffrion <richard at rain.lewisville.tx.us>
To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 7:52 AM
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] kernel sees CDROM on /dev/hdc during bootup,
but can't mount it..


> I had the CDROM as primary-slave at one point, but to no avail.
>
> As for the mknod command.  I verified that it IS on the installation file
> system, but I don't know how to use it.  'mknod -b hdc' didn't work....it
> gave me a seg. fault.  What would be the correct command?
>
> while I'm waiting... This computer has a samsung hard drive....I remember
> that some of the old IDE hard drives had a setting for master/no slave and
> master w/slave.  I'll try researching that.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daniel Hauck" <xdesign at hotmail.com>
> To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 7:24 AM
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] kernel sees CDROM on /dev/hdc during bootup,
> but can't mount it..
>
>
> > I haven't played with slackware for years but I can suggest that you
just
> > create the /dev entry by using the mknod command.
> >
> > I recall from my early experience with slackware that it didn't like
> having
> > non-contiguous IDE devices.  So if your CDROM was Secondary Master and
> there
> > was no Primary Slave, there was a problem.  In other words, if there is
no
> > device on /dev/hdb it will not register a device on /dev/hdc.  At least
> > that's the way it used to be.  It sort of makes sense in a way too... in
a
> > weird sort of way.
> >
> > So have you tried to mknod an entry??
> >
>
>
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