[ale] These times are a changing ... (at least Slackware is)

[Bob Kruger]

The card is an old Adaptec 2940.  The kernel was loading the module - I 
could see that at bootup.

The answer was to create  /dev/sda and /dev/sda1

mknod -m 0660 sda b 8 0
mknod -m 0660 sda1 b 8 1

Working great now... :-)

V/r

Bob
 

Benjie wrote:

>Did you look at the boot messages ( Is there any reference to
>/dev/sda?)  Try dmesg | less, and look for a reference to /dev/sda
>being found.  Also, what scsi card are you using?  The upgraded distro
>may not be loading the kernel module for it.
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>On 8/25/07, Bob Kruger <bkruger at mindspring.com> wrote:
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>>All;
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>>I just upgraded a faithful and trusty server that had been running
>>Slackware v9.0 to Slackware v12.0.  This machine has two IDE drives (hda
>>and hdb) and one SCSI drive (sda).
>>
>>Upgrade went flawlessly until I tried to mount the SCSI drive.  I
>>usually use a line like so (until I update my /etc/fstab file)
>>
>>mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /pub/sda
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>>(Note - mount point, e.g. directory, /pub/sda exists.)
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>>Much to my surprise, I got the message:   mount: special device
>>/dev/sda1 does not exist
>>
>>A quick check of the /dev directory shows no device sda1, which I had
>>always seen in past Slackware versions.
>>
>>Has something drastically changed, or is there a simple way that I can
>>create the device /dev/sda and /dev/sda1 in the /dev directory and keep
>>driving on?
>>
>> From another older slackware server, doing ls -la /dev/sda* results in:
>>
>>brw-rw----  1 root disk 8,  0 1995-04-29 06:33 sda
>>brw-rw----  1 root disk 8,  1 1995-04-29 06:33 sda1
>>
>>Hopefully there is a simple way for me to create these in the /dev
>>directory and not have to bother with massive changes.
>>
>>Thanks in advance for any assistance.
>>
>>V/r
>>
>>Bob
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