Devfs and new hard drive problem.

dbelwood · n00b Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 3

Hi all,

I recently added a new hard drive to my system and everything seemed fine. I partitioned it and created an EXT3 fs on it and the kernel recognizes the drive and partition. However, in my /dev directory instead of /dev/hde1 being a symlink to the partion under /dev/ide it is an empty directory. I added entries for hde and hde1 in /etc/devfsd.conf to no avail. I can manually change it to a symlink, but this isn't a fix.

Any suggestions?
Thanks.

My devfsd.conf entries:

#Create /dev/hde
LOOKUP ^hde$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/disc hde
REGISTER ^ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/disc$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink $devname hde
UNREGISTER ^ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/disc$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink $devname hde

# Create /dev/hde1
LOOKUP ^hde1$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 hde1
REGISTER ^ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink $devname hde1
UNREGISTER ^ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink $devname hde1

keratos68 · Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2003 6:50 pm Post subject:

HANG ON

If you have an IDE disk, can I assume that the M/B posesses standard Primary and Secondary IDE controllers,each with Master & Slave endpoints. Therefore, I tally that out at FOUR devices - hda, hdb, hdc, hdd.

From where do you expect hde to be setup?? Have you modified anything in the BOOT prompt or GRUB/LILO??
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dbelwood · n00b Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 3

I installed an extra IDE controller with the hard drive as I planned on adding 4 drives in total. The system configured the first drive on the Promise card as hde.