Re: [TCLUG:6999] Weird Error

[sos@skypoint.com (Steve Siegfried)]

In 6.0 RedHat, Block devices with a major-number of 8 are scsi disks.

	device		major,minor	used for
	==========	===========	=======================
	sda      	 8,0		all of device "sda"
	sda[1-15]	 8,1-15		sda1, sda2, etc
	sdb		 8,16		all of devicd "sdb"
	sdb[1-15]	 8,17-31	sdb1, sdb2, etc
	.
	.
	.
	sdp		 8,240		all of device "sdp"
	sdp[1-15]	 8,241-255	sdp1, sdp2, etc


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Ben Kochie wrote:
> 
> i belive that has to do with national language support
> 
> Thank You,
>         Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net)
> 
> On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Bob Tanner wrote:
> 
> > Jul 16 09:30:33 linux modprobe: can't locate module block-major-8 
> > Jul 16 09:30:34 linux modprobe: can't locate module block-major-8 
> > 
> > What does this mean?