List Info

Thread: Missing device nodes




Missing device nodes
user name
2006-01-30 15:10:46
> Notice sd5 in the list there.
> 
> With the exception of sd0 (which contains the NetBSD
installation), the
> other disks are all formatted with one large ext2
partition.
> 
> I can happily do disklabel sd1-4 and mount_ext2fs sdXe
/diskX to mount
> the disks and use them just fine. 
> 
> My problem is that no device nodes are created for sd5
and even if I
> try to manually create them with mknod, I get
"Device not configured"
> when trying to mount.

You can use the MAKEDEV script in /dev to create the extra
device files.
In this case:

  cd /dev && sh MAKEDEV sd5

will create the files for your 6th disk.  I'm not sure why
it doesn't work
when you create ths files manually.  The i386 GENERIC kernel
config (which
is included by GENERIC.MP) has:

  sd*     at scsibus? target ? lun ?      # SCSI disk drives


so it should be able to handle this (I'm not sure what the
limit is - I
have a sparc64 with 14 disks which worked perfectly once I
ran MAKEDEV).

J


-- 
  My other computer also runs NetBSD    /        Sailing at
Newbiggin
        http://www.netbsd.org/    
   /   http://www.newbi
gginsailingclub.org/
[1]

about | contact  Other archives ( Real Estate discussion Medical topics )