From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Prakash K. Cheemplavam" Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 00:11:59 +0000 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 021 release Message-Id: <404FAECF.6080105@gmx.de> List-Id: References: <404F9E5F.2010001@myrealbox.com> In-Reply-To: <404F9E5F.2010001@myrealbox.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: walt Cc: linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org walt wrote: > Prakash K. Cheemplavam wrote: > >> walt wrote: >> >>> Prakash K. Cheemplavam wrote: >>> >>>> When I insert a zip the /dev for the partition doesn't get created >>>> (ie hdd4, fdisk shows it though). >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> My Zips always show up as /dev/sda4 (scsi disks). >> >> >> >> Do you have SCSI support compiled in? For me it doesn't (I have no >> SCSI support in, as well.) Are you using a USB ZIP? I have a ATAPI >> ZIP, so it makes no sense appearing as a SCSI device. > > > Yes, I have SCSI support compiled into the kernel, and SCSI-disk as well. > If you have SCSI/SCSI-disk support compiled as modules they should be > loaded > automatically. > > As far as I know all Zip drives are SCSI devices disguised as parallel/USB/ > IDE devices, but all required SCSI-disk support because that is what they > really are underneath the disguise. > > Try it and see what happens. Nope, I don't think so, because before udev with the evil devfs /dev/hdd4 appeared... So, unless you have a ATAPI ZIp on your own, I won't bother trying SCSI. bye, Prakash ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel