From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KKJtk-00035x-3t for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:23:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EF22BE033A; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:23:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.149.48.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89275E033A for ; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:23:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 14260 invoked by uid 3782); 19 Jul 2008 21:23:20 -0000 Received: from acm.muc.de (pD9E529A2.dip.t-dialin.net [217.229.41.162]) by colin2.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:23:18 +0200 Received: (qmail 1460 invoked by uid 1000); 19 Jul 2008 21:22:47 -0000 Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:22:47 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mount: "special device /dev/hdc does not exist". What does this mean? Message-ID: <20080719212247.GB1073@muc.de> References: <20080719185157.GA2376@muc.de> <20080719191309.213C.0.NOFFLE@turbacz.local> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080719191309.213C.0.NOFFLE@turbacz.local> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.5 (Fettercairn) From: Alan Mackenzie X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-Archives-Salt: e65e1a8d-b264-4626-9996-5e1d92f8f1fd X-Archives-Hash: e8536c6b23e3de5f09aa57f24334efcd Hi, Miernik, On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 09:13:09PM +0200, Miernik wrote: > Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > # mknod /dev/hdc b 22 0 > > This didn't help one iota. I had a look at dmesg, but there was no > > mention of hdc in it. (It did mention hdg, hdh, where my main hard > > drives are (don't ask!)). > Maybe there was some /dev/sda /dev/sdb or something similar? There's /dev/sda and /dev/sda1, and no other /dev/sd*. That's where my UBS stick gets mounted. > Why do you assume your drive is under /dev/hdx and not /dev/sdx ? Er, because it's an IDE drive, and on my old Debian system it appears at /dev/hdc. My HDD is at /dev/hdh on both old Debian and new Gentoo. When I do an lspci -v, on my Gentoo system, this shows up for hd[cd]: 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32 [virtual] Memory at 000001f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8] [virtual] Memory at 000003f0 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [size=1] [virtual] Memory at 00000170 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8] [virtual] Memory at 00000370 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [size=1] I/O ports at a400 [size=16] Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 This suggests that the IDE controller has been initialised properly, but the kernel has ignored it. > -- > Miernik > http://miernik.name/ -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany)