Re: [PLUG] Linux and Device numbering?

[Will Dyson <will_dyson@pobox.com>]

Noah silva wrote:
> I encountered a problem this week with my PC that took me a while to
> solve.

<snip>

> It turns out that Suddenly the SBLive is assigned to /dev/dsp (or actually
> /dev/dsp.orig in this case).  This is with no krnl changes, and no
> hardware changes.  It just up and decided that it was going to re-assign
> the device numbers.  This is fine and dandy, I just deleted the sym link
> and renamed the /dev/dsp.orig back to it's original name, but I wonder how
> long until it changes again?

Perhaps a package invoked the MAKEDEV script when it was updated (modutils 
does this), and that changed it? Just a guess, mind you. I run DevFS here 
(and only have the one sound card anyway).

> Turns out that mount no longer will accept IDE devices?  If I use /dev/sr2
> with the SCSI emulation, it works.
>
> Again, I didn't change the config here, the SCSI emulation has been on all
> along...  Why the sudden change?  MAYBE I updated my mount utilities
> because of ext3.

I had been under the impression that when ide-scsi took control of an ide 
device, you were no longer allowed to use it from the ide subsystem (but 
of course I could be wrong). What happens when you boot without ide-scsi?

--
Will Dyson
"Back off man, I'm a scientist!" -Dr. Peter Venkman


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