KS won't partition drives

[Philip Rowlands]

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Blair Lowe wrote:

>Shouldn't that be
>
>mknod /dev/hda b 3 0
>
>mknod /dev/hdb b 3 1

Not on my system:

$ grep hdb /etc/makedev.d/linux-2.4.x
b $STORAGE               3  64  1  33 hdb

or just consult the existing entries in /dev:

$ ls -l /dev/hda{,1}
brw-rw----  1 root disk 3, 0 Feb 23 21:02 /dev/hda
brw-rw----  1 root disk 3, 1 Feb 23 21:02 /dev/hda1

>How do the name and type values relate to the disk being used?

Not particularly obviously :)

>Even if I do that, I get a "hdb is neither a scsi or ide drive" message.

Did the mknod commands succeed? The special files still require the
relevent hardware behind to work. Does /proc/ide show the device(s)?


Cheers,
Phil