On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 03:14:57PM +0000, gphat@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I had the same problem, as the familiar /dev/hdN devices were not there.
>
> You can likely find them deep /dev/ata/...
>
> I adjusted my fstab to use /dev/ata/... devices. I believe I had done that
> once for /dev/ide, but then it was switched to ata ;)
>
I found this out as well, and made a patch that was accepted into
Martin Dalecki's IDE patchset. Turns out that the IDE guys had decided to
change the published standard for the IDE devices to /dev/ata, then have a
symlink to it named /dev/ide. DevFS wouldn't follow the symlink. The following
below changes it back to /dev/ide and kills the symlink (approved by Richard
Gooch):
-- snip --
--- linux/drivers/ide/main.c.ata Mon Jun 10 02:47:50 2002
+++ linux/drivers/ide/main.c Mon Jun 10 02:49:03 2002
@@ -1290,8 +1290,7 @@
{
printk(KERN_INFO "ATA/ATAPI device driver v" VERSION "\n");
- ide_devfs_handle = devfs_mk_dir(NULL, "ata", NULL);
- devfs_mk_symlink(NULL, "ide", DEVFS_FL_DEFAULT, "ata", NULL, NULL);
+ ide_devfs_handle = devfs_mk_dir(NULL, "ide", NULL);
/*
* Because most of the ATA adapters represent the timings in unit of
-- snip --
Give this a go.
BL.
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