In message <199512012245.RAA24554 at krakatoa.ccs.neu.edu>, Albert Cahalan writes:
>> I have just added a third IDE drive to my system. OS/2 Warp Connect
>> sees and uses it just fine. LINUX recognizes the drive hdc upon
>> bootup (the third drive is a 1.6GB Western Digital). However,
>> LINUX "fdisk /dev/hdc" does not see it.
>
>Someone (here?) had trouble with incorrect /dev entries.
>Check it against the list included with the kernel, or
>get a new MAKEDEV and use it.
My entries (kernel 1.2.13) look like this:
vanzandt-pc:/usr/lib$ ls -l /dev/hd? /dev/hd?1
brw-r----- 1 root disk 3, 0 Jul 17 1994 /dev/hda
brw-r----- 1 root disk 3, 1 Jul 17 1994 /dev/hda1
brw-r----- 1 root disk 3, 64 Jul 17 1994 /dev/hdb
brw-r----- 1 root disk 3, 65 Jul 17 1994 /dev/hdb1
brw-r----- 1 root disk 3, 128 Feb 15 1995 /dev/hdc
brw-r----- 1 root disk 3, 129 Feb 15 1995 /dev/hdc1
brw-r----- 1 root disk 3, 192 Feb 15 1995 /dev/hdd
brw-r----- 1 root disk 3, 193 Feb 15 1995 /dev/hdd1
major & minor device numbers ^ ^^^
- Jim Van Zandt