On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 10:41:44PM -0400, Michael wrote:
> Hello,
>
>>>> And the dmesg at the end, used the same CF->PCMCIA adapter, but this
>>>> time with a 128M CF card in it.  Looks like it saw the right sized card,
>>>> but still don't have the /dev/wd* entries.
>>> Umm, 
>>> cd /dev
>>> MAKEDEV wd
>>> ?
>>
>> No wd entries in the MAKEDEV from the 2.0 distribution.
> Oops, not in -current either. I guess IDE stuff isn't really common on sparc...
>
>> Did you compile support for it into that kernel?
> Yes:
> ## PCMCIA IDE controllers
> wdc*	at pcmcia?
> atabus* at ata?
> wd*		at atabus? drive ? flags 0x0000
> Without that wd0 wouldn't attach at all.

True, didn't think about that.

>
>> Can I can just grab the major/minor's from my i386 box and make them by hand?
> I think so, it's definitely worth a try.
> On sparc64 it looks like this:
> brw-r-----  1 root  operator  12,  0 Mar 20 11:55 /dev/wd0a
> brw-r-----  1 root  operator  12,  1 Mar 20 11:55 /dev/wd0b
> brw-r-----  1 root  operator  12,  2 Mar 20 11:55 /dev/wd0c
> brw-r-----  1 root  operator  12,  3 Mar 20 11:55 /dev/wd0d
> brw-r-----  1 root  operator  12,  4 Mar 20 11:55 /dev/wd0e
> brw-r-----  1 root  operator  12,  5 Mar 20 11:55 /dev/wd0f
> brw-r-----  1 root  operator  12,  6 Mar 20 11:55 /dev/wd0g
> brw-r-----  1 root  operator  12,  7 Mar 20 11:55 /dev/wd0h

Maybe not (off my i386 2.0 box):

$ ls -l /dev/wd0*
brw-r-----  1 root operator 0,      0 Apr 26  2003 /dev/wd0a
brw-r-----  1 root operator 0,      1 Jun 18  2004 /dev/wd0b
brw-r-----  1 root operator 0,      2 Apr 26  2003 /dev/wd0c
brw-r-----  1 root operator 0,      3 Apr 26  2003 /dev/wd0d
brw-r-----  1 root operator 0,      4 Apr 26  2003 /dev/wd0e
brw-r-----  1 root operator 0,      5 Apr 26  2003 /dev/wd0f
brw-r-----  1 root operator 0,      6 Apr 26  2003 /dev/wd0g
brw-r-----  1 root operator 0,      7 Nov  8  2003 /dev/wd0h
brw-r-----  1 root operator 0, 524288 Apr 26  2003 /dev/wd0i
brw-r-----  1 root operator 0, 524289 Apr 26  2003 /dev/wd0j
brw-r-----  1 root operator 0, 524290 Apr 26  2003 /dev/wd0k
brw-r-----  1 root operator 0, 524291 Apr 26  2003 /dev/wd0l
brw-r-----  1 root operator 0, 524292 Apr 26  2003 /dev/wd0m
brw-r-----  1 root operator 0, 524293 Apr 26  2003 /dev/wd0n
brw-r-----  1 root operator 0, 524294 Apr 26  2003 /dev/wd0o
brw-r-----  1 root operator 0, 524295 Apr 26  2003 /dev/wd0p

I'll try yours. =)

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Michael Parson
mparson@bl.org