[wplug] FC4 no sd

Diana A. Clarion dclarion at fnordnet.net
Sat Sep 10 01:36:50 EDT 2005


Ah, so there's automatic stuff going on...  Call me a Luddite, but I like the
good old do-it-yourself-manually sort of thing.  I know exactly what's there,
because I put it there myself.

YMMV, of course.
DAC

On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 11:13:26PM -0400, Jason McCormick wrote:
> On Friday 09 September 2005 16:32, Diana A. Clarion wrote:
> > You'd add the /dev/sd* entries with 'mknod'.
> > Check /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt for particulars on the
> > nodes, but if memory serves, they start on major 8.
> 
> Keep in mind that Fedora > 3 uses udev + hotplug to create /dev entries so 
> simply doing mknod isn't going to get the job done.  If udev+hotplug isn't 
> creating a /dev/sda, for example, for the card, there might be a hardware 
> detection problem.  If you insert the card, dmesg should report what it did 
> with the device.
> 
> -- Jason
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