/dev/sda1 is missing?

Elijah · n00b Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Posts: 29 Location: Philippines

I don't know anything about devfs so naturally I'd get this problem, I'm trying to mount my nokia 5510 to /dev/sda1 to dump my mp3's in (this is working on my debian) but there's no sda on /dev ... where is it? how do I make it?

ctford0 · Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2003 4:54 am Post subject:

If it hooks up through a usb connection you will have to be sure to enable some type of usb mass storage device in your kernel (guessing here).

Hope this helps.....

Chris

Rafixus · n00b Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 67

Using DEVFS is different from the static device nodes in RedHat etc..

I also don't have my /dev/sda1 at boot time, however once I request to use the device (by mounting my usb flash drive) devfs automatically creates the device node for me to use

Being a phone - I'm not quite sure, however I just 'mount -t vfat /mnt/usb-flash/ /dev/sda1' to get it working

HTH

Elijah · n00b Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Posts: 29 Location: Philippines

Thanks for the reply, I already have the usb-storage modules loaded.. problem is that /dev/sda1 is not there, is there a MAKEDEV command in gentoo just like in debian?

Rafixus · n00b Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 67

Yes there is, are you using 'hotplug'?

I first needed to '/etc/init.d/hotplug start' before my problems dissapeared

Elijah · n00b Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Posts: 29 Location: Philippines

Whoops I don't have hotplug installed :lol:

Thanks a lot!

it's working now.