On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 08:26:20PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > On Mon, 2 May 2005 20:14:21 -0700 Greg KH wrote: > > | On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 10:51:24PM -0400, Joe wrote: > | > Ok, first off I'd like to say, I am on 2.6.12-rc3-mm2, and this issue > | > is not fixed at all. Secondly, I'd like to say that I've pinpointed > | > it a bit more. It appears only Empty partitions (type 0 in fdisk) do > | > not create device nodes. > | > > | > Here is the partition table from fdisk, fdisk does run fine.. its just > | > the fact this node is not created that threw me off before. > | > > | > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > | > /dev/sdb1 * 1 2 16033+ 0 Empty > | > /dev/sdb2 * 6 2431 19486845 b W95 FAT32 > | > /dev/sdb3 3 5 24097+ 83 Linux > | > > | > > | > Notice, /dev/sdb1 is a Empty partition... in /dev I only have sdb, > | > sdb2, and sdb3. No sdb1. Any help would be appreciated. > | > | Looks like it might be a scsi issue. Redirecting to that mailing list > | now. Anyone here have a clue? > > Could this 2.6.11.8 -stable patch fix it? > Subject: [04/07] partitions/msdos.c fix > > Joe, can you test 2.6.11.8, please? No, there is no problem but an intentional change in behaviour in -mm and now also in 2.6.11.8. Andries - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
