create device

[Tony Alfrey]

Thanks.  I actually thought I might have seen that somewhere but it 
didn't click when I was fussing with this.  I was just terrified that I 
couldn't mount the disk by what seemed like conventional means.



Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> 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. Â I'm assuming that I need to make a block
>>> device. Â There is a script /dev/MAKEDEV on Fedora 10 but it wants various
>>> parameters for the drive that I do not know about. Â 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. Â 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. Â I think one is the drive I want, but it is linked to sdc, which I
>> don't have (only two SCSI drives). Â I assume Fedora 10 did this when I
>> installed it.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
> 


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