Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Sep 1999 11:39:24 -0700 | From | Eric Dumas <> | Subject | Re: ide driver - question |
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According to Thomas Kniplitsch: > i copied ide-disk and changed it so that it is able to talk to our > interface, compiled it and installed it using insmod. using cat > /proc/ide/drivers i can see that my subdriver is registered, at least that's > what i think. but how can i talk to the disk connected to my interface now?? > I expected there would eb some /dev/ide nodes but there none. how can i > create a node for my device without having a major number. i think all work > will be done by ide.c but for that there should be some nodes, but on my > system there are only the hd nodes no ide nodes.
If these are IDE disks, you can access it using the standard /dev/hd*. Run basics commands (fdisk, mke2fs, etc.).
If you really need to create a new device, you have some devices reserved for "local/experimental" use (240->254). Think to match the driver with this experimental major number.
-- Éric Dumas (dumas@tumbleweed.com) Tumbleweed Communications, 700 Saginaw Drive, Redwood City, CA 94063, USA http://www.tumbleweed.com Tel: +1 650-216-2030
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