[wplug] FC4 no sd
Jason McCormick
jason at devrandom.org
Sat Sep 10 13:30:31 EDT 2005
I actually like udev+hotplug for nearly the same reason - the /dev entry is
there because it's on my system so I know what's there and what it's not
seeing. Plus I really like using udev rules to name devices. I'm happy that
dynamic /dev works now w/o devfs.
-- Jason
On Saturday 10 September 2005 01:36, Diana A. Clarion wrote:
> 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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