On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 01:41, Philip Rowlands wrote: > Not on my system: > > $ grep hdb /etc/makedev.d/linux-2.4.x > b $STORAGE 3 64 1 33 hdb > > or just consult the existing entries in /dev: > > $ ls -l /dev/hda{,1} > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 0 Feb 23 21:02 /dev/hda > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 1 Feb 23 21:02 /dev/hda1 > Thanks again Phil! I'm working on the mknod: the hda one succeeded, but my confusion is that /dev/hda1 would be the first partition of the one drive, and hdb would be the second ide drive, so why would you go: mknod /dev/hda1 b 3 1 for hdb???? Blair.