From: Jeremy Jackson <jerj@coplanar.net>
To: Derrik Pates <dpates@andromeda.dsdk12.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IDE floppy drives and devfs - no device nodes if no disk loaded atboot
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 21:33:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A99C060.D56ADF28@coplanar.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0102251733400.11946-100000@andromeda.dsdk12.net>
Derrik Pates wrote:
> Subject says about all there is to say. I have figured out that IDE drives
> are enumerated as part of the boot-time partition check in
> fs/partitions/check.c, but if I don't have something loaded at boot time
> (IDE SuperDisk in PC at home, IDE Zip 100 in G3 tower at work), I never
> get device nodes at all with devfs. Something really needs to be done
> about this, IMHO.
hdparm's got a cmd line switch to unregiser/register and ide interface.
It tried it *once* and it just complained about cmd line args being wrong...
i'll have to look into it more. when working it should help your situation.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-26 2:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-26 0:37 IDE floppy drives and devfs - no device nodes if no disk loaded at boot Derrik Pates
2001-02-26 2:33 ` Jeremy Jackson [this message]
2001-02-26 3:09 ` IDE floppy drives and devfs - no device nodes if no disk loaded atboot Andre Hedrick
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