[wplug] error msg for unknown device

[jsbillings at mac.com]

# ls -l /dev/sda1
brw-rw----    1 root     disk       8,   1 Apr 11  2002 /dev/sda1

(note that Device 08:01 means that it's major device number is 8, and
it's minor device number is 1.)



On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 14:29, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:
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> Hi!
> 
> First of all, many thanks to the people who responded to my earlier 
> posts, there were some _very_ interesting suggestions there.
> 
> Pushing forward, I'd like some pointers for the following glitch:
> 
> Whenever I wake up my laptop (i.e. recover from system suspend), I see 
> the following in /var/log/messages:
> 
> Jan 21 16:39:43 helios kernel: Device 08:01 not ready.
> Jan 21 16:39:43 helios kernel:  I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 126464
> 
> How do I find out what device this 08:01 is? I tried checking a big 
> (9GB) non-root partition (that would account for 30% of my entire disk) 
> with /sbin/badblocks the other night, but after 10 hours it still 
> hadn't completed, and I aborted. I used the most thorough-while-safe 
> option of badblocks (-n).
> 
> But I don't really know if this message has anything to do with my disk.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> TIA
> 
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