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- From: scott@natinst.com (Scott A. Taylor)
- Subject: Re: EISA and the abounding unix clones
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.210635.29658@natinst.com>
- Summary: /dev/hda isn't your SCSI disk
- Sender: Scott Taylor (scott@natinst.com)
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- References: <1992Aug10.174226.20085@daimi.aau.dk> <1992Aug12.192445.20894@cbnewsc.cb.att.com> <1992Aug12.201620.16694@newshost.unh.edu>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 21:06:35 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug12.201620.16694@newshost.unh.edu> pss1@kepler.unh.edu (Paul S Secinaro) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug12.192445.20894@cbnewsc.cb.att.com> chapin@cbnewsc.cb.att.com ( Tom Chapin ) writes:
- >>
- >>Do any of these abounding clones speak EISA yet? Will they?
- >>
- >
- >Well, all I know is that Linux didn't like my 486/33 EISA system with
- >DTC 3290HD SCSI controller, which is supposed to be Adaptec 1542
- >compatible. It seemed to detect the controller and read the partition
- >table properly when the bootimage was coming up, but then efdisk
- >failed with an error when it tried to open /dev/hda. I don't know if
- >this is a general problem with EISA or just my controller.
- >
- Neither. The first SCSI disk is accessed as /dev/sda (major number 8, minor
- number 0), the second is /dev/sdb, etc.; /dev/hda refers to the first drive
- on an AT-style interface (MFM, RLL, IDE). If /dev/sda doesn't exist on the
- root disk (I haven't seen a root disk since 0.95 ;-) ), make it with mknod.
- "mknod /dev/sda b 8 0" should do it. Incidentally, if you got that far I
- would guess that linux DOES run on *your* EISA machine.
- >Paul
- >
- >--
- >Niven's Law #14: There exist minds that think as well as you do, but
- > differently.
- >Niven's Corollary: The gene-tampered turkey you're talking to isn't
- > necessarily one of them.
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