create device

[Lonni J Friedman]

Fedora (and all recent Linux distros) switched to using SCSI emulation
for all hard disks.  the /dev/hdX nomenclature has been deprecated for
quite some time.

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Tony Alfrey <tonyalfrey at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Tony Alfrey wrote:
>>
>> Hello;
>>
>> Maybe there are Fedora experts here.
>>
>> System:
>>
>> Athlon
>> Windows on IDE drive
>> SuSE 9.1 on SATA sda
>> Fedora 10 on SATA sdb
>> Silicon Image controller for the SATA drives.
>>
>>
>> Recently upgraded an old Fedora 6 installation with the Fedora 10.
>>
>> Now I want to be able to mount the IDE drive on the Fedora 10.
>> I can do this easily on the SuSE 9.1, but for some reason, there is no
>> hda1 in /dev for the IDE drive.  I'm assuming that I need to make a block
>> device.  There is a script /dev/MAKEDEV on Fedora 10 but it wants various
>> parameters for the drive that I do not know about.  How do I go about
>> finding the information needed to make this happen, or is there some
>> automated way to make the drive be visible.  This Fedora 10 installation
>> looks /way/ different than the Fedora 6 and frankly, the thing baffles me.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>
>
> I also found on a KDE manpage that I should use mknod like this
>
> mknod -m 660 /dev/hda b 3 0
> mknod -m 660 /dev/hda1 b 3 1
> chown root:disk /dev/hd*
>
> I suppose that the chown makes root the owner and disk the group for all of
> the partitions (just one) in hda.
>
> And there is also a directory /dev/disk/by-id which seems to have links from
> block devices that appear to be the drives to various partitions on the SCSI
> drives.  I think one is the drive I want, but it is linked to sdc, which I
> don't have (only two SCSI drives).  I assume Fedora 10 did this when I
> installed it.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.

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