Hi,
I was just trying to install from scratch the new version of LINUX using the
boot disket of the slackware distribution with the mitsumi driver. When booting
the kernel correctly reports two harddisks 'hda' (primary conroller) and
'hdc' secondary controller. 'hdb' & 'hdd' (the slaves) donot exist (in fact
'hdd' is the mitsumi cd drive).
Looking at the /dev/ directory I can see the drives hda to hdd but only
partitions of drives hda 7 hdb are there. For the two other drives only the
drive itself 'hd?' is present. When trying now a 'fdisk /dev/hda' all works
fine, but 'fdisk /dev/hdc' does not ("unable to open /dev/hdc").
Configuration: Plato Pentium 90 Mainboard with 2 E-IDE controllers
/dev/hda WD31000 1.xGB HD
/dev/hdb not used
/dev/hdc Micropolis 540MB HD
/dev/hdd Mitsumi CD (/dev/hdd used to show it is the slave on
E-IDE 2)
Any hints are welcome,
Gast.