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On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 10:45:04 -0700 (PDT), Globe Trotter wrote:
> I am very confused with all this: both the home machine which I installed RH9
> 2.4.20-8 on, and the work one, which comes with it pre-installed, have the
> following output for
>
> $ cat /proc/devices | grep 14
>
> 14 sound
> 140 pts
> 141 pts
> 142 pts
> 143 pts
> 14 unnamed
>
> The home machine is a Dell Latitude C840 laptop and the work machine is a
> gigantic Dell Dimension 650.
>
> Does anyone have any idea as to what all this is? How come only I get this
> output?? I have looked at the devices.txt and was unable to come up with
> anything....
The assumption that only you get this output is wrong, see:
$ cat /proc/devices | grep 14
14 sound
140 pts
141 pts
142 pts
143 pts
14 unnamed
And when I grep /dev for a block device with major 14, I don't get
any results. That's why I wrote:
: I think unnamed devices are not available through /dev and only
: used internally by the kernel.
Character devices with major 14 are all related to sound, mixers,
sequencers and so on.
In kernel documentation, for major 14 I see
block BIOS harddrive callback support {2.6}
but since this is a 2.4.20-19.9 kernel, I don't know whether it is
normal or due to something backported by Red Hat. And I haven't
started any investigation due to other things on the TODO list.
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