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Re: Some initial difficulties

To: Michael Talbot-Wilson <mtw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Some initial difficulties
From: Brian Bock <>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 21:40:41 -0600
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Are you running the devfs daemon?
It's available at:
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/

If not, install it and see if it helps.

--Brian Bock
pluribusunum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

* Michael Talbot-Wilson (mtw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) [001112 10:51]:
> I have switched to devfs on birdseye, but found problems, mainly
> directories and devices not appearing.
> 
> The system is Linux 2.4.0-test9, glibc 2.1.1, util-linux 2.10p.
> 
> There is no /dev/floppy after I modprobe floppy, and no /dev/ide/fd.
> 
> There is no /dev/loop after I modeprobe loop.
> 
> I have two SCSI adapters, and use lilo to pass the parameters of one
> of them to the kernel.  This is always scsi0.  But in clueless hope
> I have tried giving the kernel "scsihosts=aha152x:aic7xxx" anyway.
> 
> scsi0:0:0 is a tape drive.  scsi0:4:0 is a CD burner.
> 
> scsi1:0:1:0, scsi1:0:2:0 and scsi1:0:4:0 are hard disk drives.  There
> are no problems with the diskoi (phew).
> 
> If I try to list /dev/tapes/ the st.o module is loaded and prints a
> message, but the directory doesn't appear, and the device file doesn't
> appear under /dev/scsi.
> 
> There is no /dev/sg directory after I modprobe sg.
> 
> There is a full directory tree under /dev/scsi/host0, but the lun
> directories are uninhabited:
> 
> host0:
> bus0/
> 
> host0/bus0:
> target0/, target4/
> 
> host0/bus0/target0:
> lun0/
> 
> host0/bus0/target0/lun0:
> 
> host0/bus0/target4:
> lun0/
> 
> host0/bus0/target4/lun0:
> 
> host1:
> 
> Also, rlogin and remote printing to birdseye have conked out for some
> reason.  I can't do a remote backup to the tape drive even if I mknod
> /dev/st0.  Is this a coincidence, I'm wondering, or also the work of
> devfs?
> 
> I see nothing in the list archive about these problems, and so assume
> others aren't having them.  What am I doing wrong?
> 

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