From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Tom Beer" Subject: Re: USB device installation Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 11:19:04 +0200 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <022101c1e6ba$18302b00$0901a8c0@system> References: <20020417221621.7E4A052728@psybernet.co.nz> <010001c1e6a2$41bbc640$0901a8c0@system> <20020418081641.757F752728@psybernet.co.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: walter@psybernet.co.nz, linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org > I have searched around and found this page: > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SCSI-2.4-HOWTO/dnamesdevfs.html > > But i am still not sure what to enter for char-major-NUMBER 1 > > Also you corrected the command to mknod 660 -n /dev/sda1 but it > seems n does not work here m= mode? n > > # mknod 660 -n /dev/sda1 c [b,8,0] > mknod: invalid option -- n > Probably is the -m flag right. try man 8 mknod. After reading this I would recommend using mknod 660 -m /dev/sda1 -b 8 0 But be cautions. I won't - as ever - not guarantee that this will work. Check it out and if it won't work delete the device node. . rm -i /dev/sda1. Greets Tom - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs