-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 What I typed works better in a shell script but it appeared to be ok for you too. So tell me, did it work for you? If it did, put that into a script and run it once on boot. It's a stupid hack for that bug. So here's what you are really doing. (a) create a device node to point to whatever needs pointing to (b) read a bit from the device and throw away the result. It doesn't matter if there is a disc in the drive or not. The point is to do the read. (c) remove that device node. You could write that dd command as: dd if=$FILE bs=1 count=1 >/dev/null 2>&1 to make the errors go away also. Joshua b. Jore Minneapolis Ward 3, precinct 10 http://www.greentechnologist.org On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Carl Zeilon wrote: > Thanks Joshua, it sounds like you have handle on this situation. All I have > to do is iron out the details. Here's what happened: > > [root at localhost carl]# FILE=/root/tmp/hdb4 > [root at localhost carl]# mknod $FILE b 3 68 > [root at localhost carl]# dd if=$FILE of=/dev/null bs=1 count=1 > dd: opening `/root/tmp/hdb4': Input/output error > [root at localhost carl]# rm $FILE > rm: remove `/root/tmp/hdb4'? y > [root at localhost carl]# > > I hope I input this the way you were looking for. Could you explain in a > little simpler terms what I'm doing here? I'm very new to the Linux command > line. I read the mans, but don't quite get it. > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > Carl, > I don't have a devfs linux kernel around to verify this with but here's > how I remember doing this. You *don't* create the device node in /dev. Do > it in /root or /tmp. The thing is, all you have to do is do some IO and > devfs will notice the drive. > > Here's an idea: > > FILE=/root/tmp/hd?? > mknod $FILE b ? ?? > dd if=$FILE of=/dev/null bs=1 count=1 > rm $FILE > > Obviously that does absolutely nothing of any real interest *except* > force the system to actually look for something at that device node. > You'll notice a matching /dev/hd?? symlink will have just appeared. It's > magic. > > Joshua b. Jore > Minneapolis Ward 3, precinct 10 > http://www.greentechnologist.org > > On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Carl Zeilon wrote: > > > OK, here is the latest of the zip saga. By issuing "mknod /dev/hdb4 b 3 > 68" > > everything works great! AFAIK there is a problem with devfs & the > ide-floppy > > module. Nobody on the Mandrake forum seems to know how to make this "stick" > > though (I tried adding it to /etc/rc.d/rc.local). All these fixes have to > be > > rerun after rebooting or just logging out. The best suggestion I heard is > > changing the configuration to use the ide-scsi module (just like the old > > days). Unfortunately, I wasn't around for those days & don't know how to do > > it. Does this sound like a good option? Anybody want to walk me through > it? > > Thanks > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (OpenBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE78sh5fexLsowstzcRAhNfAKCoMcZ8ZBQQ61SWQB1VhygI3VWCPgCgjbFQ N9SoQWR2W96ZnhLAPhS8+3E= =ySb5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----