Re: /dev/hdc device major and minor numbers.

[Anmol Khirbat <anmol@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

Have you built floppy and cdrom support as modules? Have you built floppy
and cdrom support at all? What does `cat /proc/devices' tell you? 

If you built modules, make sure that the modules (ide-cd.o and floppy.o)
are loaded. If the modules are loaded and it still doesn't work try
building a new kernel with floppy and cdrom support inside the kernel.

The file /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt is the definitive list
of device numbers. I dont think you need it right now because /dev/fd0 and
/dev/hdc probably have the right major and minor numbers on your system. 

bye :)
Anmol

On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Sundeep Holani wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Anmol Khirbat wrote:
> 
> ># cd /dev 
> ># ./MAKEDEV hdc
> 
> Hi anmol, I dont have anything like MAKEDEV in /dev , or anywhere else on
> my system :(. There are no man page entries either.
> 
> Besides, the problem is more complicated than that. I'm running SuSE
> linux, kernel 2.2.14 . When i boot with the default kernel, everything
> works fine, but when i use a compiled kernel (same version), then mounting
> devices like the cdrom or the floppy give me errors. Here's the
> illustration --
> 
> srijan:~ # mount /cdrom 
> mount: /dev/hdc has wrong major or minor number
> srijan:~ # 
> srijan:~ # mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /floppy 
> mount: /dev/fd0 has wrong major or minor number 
> srijan:~ #       
> 
> Please help.
> 
> Regards,
> -- Sundeep.