Hi Gordon, Thanks for your reply. Actually, I used mknod directly, I got the major and minor numbers from /sys/block/hd?/dev, and just made the block file entries, then I was able to use fdisk to see the drives. So the entries in /sys tell me the kernel saw the devices, and fdisk would lead me to believe that the entries in /dev were OK. root@qabal:~# ls -Fal /dev/hd[ik] brw-r--r-- 1 root root 56, 0 Oct 10 02:19 /dev/hdi brw-r--r-- 1 root root 57, 0 Oct 10 02:20 /dev/hdk For some reason, when I run autostart (sorry no output, I have to reconfigure and reboot to be able to e-mail) it doesn't even mention the higher drives, it just tells me that there is something wrong with the super-blocks on the devices with the major and minor numbers of /dev/hd[eg] and then tries to start the array with just those two devices. Any ideas? Thanks Again, Nate On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 14:56, Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, Nathanial A. Byrnes wrote: > > > Where hde-hdh are on my PCI promise controller, and hdi-hdl are on my > > onboard HighPoint 366 controller. (The same array worked on just the > > Highpoint 366 controller as well) > > Assuming you have the right driver compiled into the kernel, /dev doesn't > list hdi-l by default (at least not on my Debian systems) Check the dmesg > output to make sure the driver is compiled in and it's recognising the > drives. > > You might need to run MAKEDEV with the right runes - but worse, I've had > to hand-edit this file to insert the right major/minor device numbers for > some really high alphabetical letters. > > I have this: > > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 0 Mar 14 2002 hda > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 64 Mar 14 2002 hdb > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 22, 0 Mar 14 2002 hdc > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 22, 64 Mar 14 2002 hdd > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 33, 0 Mar 14 2002 hde > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 33, 64 Mar 14 2002 hdf > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 34, 0 Mar 14 2002 hdg > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 34, 64 Mar 14 2002 hdh > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 56, 0 May 24 15:31 hdi > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 56, 64 May 24 15:31 hdj > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 57, 0 May 24 15:31 hdk > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 57, 64 May 24 15:31 hdl > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 88, 0 May 24 16:00 hdm > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 88, 64 May 24 16:00 hdn > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 89, 0 May 24 16:00 hdo > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 89, 64 May 24 16:00 hdp > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 90, 0 May 24 16:00 hdq > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 90, 64 May 24 16:00 hdr > > I think I had to dig in the kernel originally to get the major/minor > devices. Hope this is of use. > > You can get the MAKEDEV I used to create these from > http://www.drogon.net/MAKEDEV > > Gordon > > !DSPAM:4169860d14355587716053! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
