Re: 2.4.20-rc1-ac4 HPT374 doesn't find connected ide drives

Christian Guggenberger
2002-11-20T16:46:47Z

On 19.11.2002 20:35 Karsten Desler wrote:
> > okay, my brain really shrinks; with only one hdd attached, you can't create
> an
> > array. So here it seems to work out of the box. I just tried 2.4.20-rc-ac1,
>
> > which detects my drive connected to that hpt374 (hde).
> >
> > Maybe you can give this one a try?
>
Karsten,

so today I added 4 more drives to my hpt374, tried 2.5.47-ac6 and works
flawlessy...
Sorry, but I can't try 2.4-ac-latest, cause of missing xfs support.

There are some things you could be bitten with:
My Distribution (Debian) only ships with device names up to /dev/hdh ...

So, by default, you'll see the drives attached to ide4(hdi,j) and to
ide5(hdk,l) in the kernel messages, but you can't use 'em...

You have to make device nodes yourself:

mknod /dev/hd* b MAJOR MINOR

where:
hdi : 56 0
hdi1: 56 1
...

hdj : 56 64
hdj1: 56 65
...

hdk : 57 0
hdk1: 57 1
...

hdl : 57 64
hdl1: 57 65
...

see Documentation/devices.txt in the linux kernel sources.

hope this helps for ya!
Good Luck
CHristian