From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264849AbUEYNun (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 May 2004 09:50:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264850AbUEYNun (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 May 2004 09:50:43 -0400 Received: from postfix3-1.free.fr ([213.228.0.44]:6362 "EHLO postfix3-1.free.fr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264849AbUEYNub (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 May 2004 09:50:31 -0400 Message-ID: <40B34F1E.5020206@free.fr> Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 15:50:22 +0200 From: baptiste coudurier User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040306) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: MORE THAN 10 IDE CONTROLLERS References: <40B23D4A.4010708@free.fr> <40B34946.9030500@g-house.de> <40B34C35.3090303@ru.mvista.com> In-Reply-To: <40B34C35.3090303@ru.mvista.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.83.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Eugeny S. Mints wrote: | Christian Kujau wrote: | | baptiste coudurier schrieb: | | Does anyone know what are major/minors for hdu, hdv, hdw, hdx ? | | not being a professional, i see: | | evil@sheep:~$ la /dev/hd? | brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 0 2004-03-10 11:33 /dev/hda | brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 64 2004-03-10 11:33 /dev/hdb | brw-rw---- 1 root disk 22, 0 2004-03-10 11:33 /dev/hdc | brw-rw---- 1 root disk 22, 64 2004-03-10 11:33 /dev/hdd | brw-rw---- 1 root disk 33, 0 2004-03-10 11:40 /dev/hde | brw-rw---- 1 root disk 33, 64 2004-03-10 11:40 /dev/hdf | brw-rw---- 1 root disk 34, 0 2004-03-10 11:40 /dev/hdg | brw-rw---- 1 root disk 34, 64 2004-03-10 11:40 /dev/hdh | | so, it's a major number for every controller (e.g. "22" for hdc+hdd each | belonging to one controller). hdi+hdj would be major 35, minor [0|64] ? | i'd try this out for hdx and further... | | |> afaik even the 2.6.x kernel defines only 10 major numbers for IDE |> devices (from 0 upto 9). All are predefined - see include/linux/major.h | | | did you try devfs/udev? perhaps it could solve this by itsself....? | | Christian. | | PS: maybe Documentation/devices.txt helps out too. | | -- | BOFH excuse #75: | | There isn't any problem I finally patched the kernel sucessfully, adding some new major numbers Everything seems to work fine execpt for hdparm yet. Im still working on it. I can supply a patch if anyone is interested. Thks for your help - -- Baptiste Coudurier UIN : 1980693 Debian GNU/Linux user ESF Courchevel 1850 GnuPG fp: 8D77 134D 20CC 9220 201F:C5DB 0AC9 325C 5C1A BAAA checking for life_signs in -lKenny... no -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQCVAwUBQLNPHgrJMlxcGrqqAQLM4gQAlbHpflsWyuwssE4SoWn5QqteJfetM/bE v1YYEtEDbeIlceOMxpH53mwoFv2w0bLiE3dqoiG2NA4o7yA7v+DJq6s599rwmR8o KhQYAt/kzMpgzUBPK9Q1qZRKFppM16EwwwKqoehK1z9vAd99Opnm6/Zo8LjYibh1 YYsNtowc6gE= =VcMI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----