Re: FC4-re0429.0 known bugs?

[Markus Lidel <Markus Lidel shadowconnect com>]

Hello,

Chuck R. Anderson wrote:
> On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 09:50:03AM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > > /dev/i2o/hda[a-z]
> > This shouldn't be a problem -- aren't the partitions of the
> > form /dev/i2o/hda2?  
> I have no actual knowledge of these devices myself. 
> I read in /etc/makedev.d/linux-2.6.x:
> b $STORAGE              80   0  1  16 i2o/hda
> b $STORAGE              80  16  1  16 i2o/hdb
> b $STORAGE              80  32  1  16 i2o/hdc
> b $STORAGE              80  48  1  16 i2o/hdd
> b $STORAGE              80  64  1  16 i2o/hde
> b $STORAGE              80  80  1  16 i2o/hdf
> b $STORAGE              80  96  1  16 i2o/hdg
> b $STORAGE              80 112  1  16 i2o/hdh
> b $STORAGE              80 128  1  16 i2o/hdi
> b $STORAGE              80 144  1  16 i2o/hdj
> b $STORAGE              80 160  1  16 i2o/hdk
> b $STORAGE              80 176  1  16 i2o/hdl
> b $STORAGE              80 192  1  16 i2o/hdm
> b $STORAGE              80 208  1  16 i2o/hdn
> b $STORAGE              80 224  1  16 i2o/hdo
> b $STORAGE              80 240  1  16 i2o/hdp
> b $STORAGE              81   0  1  16 i2o/hdq
> b $STORAGE              81  16  1  16 i2o/hdr
> b $STORAGE              81  32  1  16 i2o/hds
> b $STORAGE              81  48  1  16 i2o/hdt
> b $STORAGE              81  64  1  16 i2o/hdu
> b $STORAGE              81  80  1  16 i2o/hdv
> b $STORAGE              81  96  1  16 i2o/hdw
> b $STORAGE              81 112  1  16 i2o/hdx
> b $STORAGE              81 128  1  16 i2o/hdy
> b $STORAGE              81 144  1  16 i2o/hdz
> b $STORAGE              81 160  1  16 i2o/hdaa
> b $STORAGE              81 176  1  16 i2o/hdab
> b $STORAGE              81 192  1  16 i2o/hdac
> b $STORAGE              81 208  1  16 i2o/hdad
> b $STORAGE              81 224  1  16 i2o/hdae
> b $STORAGE              81 240  1  16 i2o/hdaf
> ...
>
> and interpreted this to mean partitions of the form i2o/hd?[a-z]

It's like IDE /dev/i2o/hda, /dev/i2o/hdb, ... are the harddisks, and 
/dev/i2o/hda1, /dev/i2o/hda2, ... are the partitions on the first 
harddisk, /dev/i2o/hdb1, /dev/i2o/hdb2, ... are the partitions on the 
second harddisk, and so on...

Best regards,


Markus Lidel