Re: MORE THAN 10 IDE CONTROLLERS

[baptiste coudurier]

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Eugeny S. Mints wrote:
| Christian Kujau wrote:
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| baptiste coudurier schrieb:
| | Does anyone know what are major/minors for hdu, hdv, hdw, hdx ?
|
| not being a professional, i see:
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| 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...
|
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|> 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
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|
| 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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| --
| BOFH excuse #75:
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| 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

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