No device nodes for ATA floppy (ZIP drive)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
linux-source-2.6.15 (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Medium
|
Fabio Massimo Di Nitto |
Bug Description
I have an internal zip drive connected as hdb. On other Linux systems,
I access it with an entry in fstab for /dev/hdb4. This drive is not
showing up in ubuntu Device Manager, so when I try to mount it I get an
error "mount: special device /dev/hdb4 does not exist". My fstab entry
is
/dev/hdb4 /mnt/zip auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
These are the hdx devices in /dev
root@gstpc-
/dev/hda /dev/hda11 /dev/hda4 /dev/hda7 /dev/hdc /dev/hde1 /dev/hde5
/dev/hda1 /dev/hda2 /dev/hda5 /dev/hda8 /dev/hdd /dev/hde2
/dev/hda10 /dev/hda3 /dev/hda6 /dev/hda9 /dev/hde /dev/hde3
Notice there is no /dev/hdb, even though the zip is attached as slave on the
first IDE controller. It shows up fine in Fedora Core 1,2,3, Suse 9.1.
A mailing list member led me to a remedy for this problem. He suggested I add links.conf to make the two special devices hdb and hdb4. The
lines to /etc/udev/
lines I added were
M hdb b 3 64
M hdb4 b 3 67
These create the special device files on boot and I am now able to mount and use
the zip disk.
However, I think something in the initial install/ configuration should have
caused these files to exist without this addition to links.conf.