Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 25 Feb 2001 21:33:04 -0500 | From | Jeremy Jackson <> | Subject | Re: IDE floppy drives and devfs - no device nodes if no disk loaded atboot |
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Derrik Pates wrote:
> Subject says about all there is to say. I have figured out that IDE drives > are enumerated as part of the boot-time partition check in > fs/partitions/check.c, but if I don't have something loaded at boot time > (IDE SuperDisk in PC at home, IDE Zip 100 in G3 tower at work), I never > get device nodes at all with devfs. Something really needs to be done > about this, IMHO.
hdparm's got a cmd line switch to unregiser/register and ide interface. It tried it *once* and it just complained about cmd line args being wrong... i'll have to look into it more. when working it should help your situation.
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