SATA drive not listed in /dev/

jakeWSYSA · n00b Joined: 30 Apr 2004 Posts: 56

I have 6 asus p4c800 systems and each have 3 SATA drives.

They at one time had Windows server installed however I have retired MS as thier operating system and am attempting to install gentoo on them.

I can make it to the step where I configure my /etc/fstab file.
The problem is that I do not know what the path is to mount my sata drives.

I have 2 of the drives mirroed using the promise SATA controller, and in researching the internet found that there are some issues relating to drivers with the promise controllers.
So I didn't use those drives.

However one SATA drive is connected to the non-raid port and I was able to fdisk it from the LiveCD under "/dev/ide/hd/c2b0t0u0" . now I followed all the steps and am trying to create my mount points and I cannot find those drives ( I'm mounted to the file system but the devices are not listed anywhere) .

Ok they are listed but not in the /dev folder. I run the command

"ls -l /proc/ide/*"
This produces the the following:

driverss
hdc -> ide1/hdc
hde -> ide2/hde
ide1
ide2
piix

My next step was to check if /dev/hde exists, however there is no entry in /dev/ for hde. I have attempted to fdisk the following and all say unable to open device (except /dev/hdc)
/dev/hda -hde
/dev/hdc --worked-- CDROM

/dev/sda - sde
/dev/ataraid/d0 - d2

/dev/ida c0d0 - c2d2

maybe more, don't really recall, but please help me find out how to trace the entry in /proc/ide/ide2 to my device.

I also am assuming that piix is my promise controller, another side question would be how do I access this in /dev so I can use the raid device?

Gentoo 2004.1 Kernel V 2.4.25
HD Samsung 120gb SATA 8mb cache

Thanks for any assistance.

alsh · Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2004 9:41 pm Post subject:

Maybe this will help some?
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=162023&highlight=promise+piix

jakeWSYSA · n00b Joined: 30 Apr 2004 Posts: 56

I will try compatibility mode, however I am curious how I can manually add a device to the /dev folder.

The devices are there and functioning, I compiled a kernel on them, but they are not listed in /dev/ therefore creating a mountpoint is not possible with my limited information.

furkan · Guru Joined: 11 Dec 2003 Posts: 520 Location: Montreal CA

if you boot in livecd with sm it should be on /dev/sda ....and for patch you can find libata for kernel 2.4 series ....if you use kernel 2.6 series it is in scsi>scsi low driver..>Serial ATA.... and after then promise....

AlterX · l33t Joined: 03 Apr 2004 Posts: 754 Location: rm -rf /*

Resolve it with following:

after chrooting, you type:

mkdir /dev
cd /dev
MAKEDEV generic-i386

to be continued with installation...

Hi
Gianni

jakeWSYSA · n00b Joined: 30 Apr 2004 Posts: 56

That pointed me in the right direction,
The solution was
to type
MAKEDEV hde

while in the /dev folder[/code]