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SubjectRe: MORE THAN 10 IDE CONTROLLERS
Christian Kujau wrote:
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> baptiste coudurier schrieb:
> | Does anyone know what are major/minors for hdu, hdv, hdw, hdx ?
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> 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.
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