Hi, I'm trying to create shared raw devices on opensuse 10.3. 1) I created raw partitions but when i try #raw -qa i receive the mentioned error. I tried all options but does not work. 2) I would like to know how to check / access raw partitions from a different system within the network. may be some example commands to view raw partitions from system 2 I created 5 logical partitions (under the extended partitions option on my second hard drive) of 150M each with fdisk /dev/sdb and i created the binding file as well. Any help is extremely appreciated. Newbie. So no shortforms pls. sunny@sunny1:~> su - Password: sunny1:~ # uname -a Linux sunny1 2.6.22.5-31-default #1 SMP 2007/09/21 22:29:00 UTC i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux sunny1:~ # fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40027029504 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4866 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0003b052 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 96 771088+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda2 * 97 2012 15390270 83 Linux /dev/sda3 2013 4866 22924755 83 Linux Disk /dev/sdb: 20.0 GB, 20020396032 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2434 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xbfffbfff Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 2434 19551073+ 5 Extended /dev/sdb5 1 19 152554+ 83 Linux /dev/sdb6 20 38 152586 83 Linux /dev/sdb7 39 57 152586 83 Linux /dev/sdb8 58 76 152586 83 Linux /dev/sdb9 77 95 152586 83 Linux sunny1:~ # cat /etc/fstab /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_MAXTOR_6L040J2_362215724756-part1 swap swap defaults 0 0/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_MAXTOR_6L040J2_362215724756-part2 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1 /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_MAXTOR_6L040J2_362215724756-part3 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 sunny1:~ # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 15G 3.1G 11G 23% / udev 252M 100K 252M 1% /dev /dev/sda3 22G 188M 21G 1% /home sunny1:~ # cat /etc/raw raw5:sdb5 raw6:sdb6 raw7:sdb7 raw8:sdb8 raw9:sdb9 sunny1:~ # zgrep -i raw /proc/config.gz CONFIG_IP_NF_RAW=m CONFIG_IP6_NF_RAW=m CONFIG_IEEE1394_RAWIO=m CONFIG_ARCNET_RAW=m CONFIG_HDLC_RAW=m CONFIG_HDLC_RAW_ETH=m CONFIG_SERIO_RAW=m CONFIG_RAW_DRIVER=m CONFIG_MAX_RAW_DEVS=4096 CONFIG_SND_RAWMIDI=m CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_SIERRAWIRELESS=m sunny1:~ # zgrep -i 162 /etc/modprobe.conf alias char-major-162 raw sunny1:~ # cd /dev sunny1:/dev # ls -l *raw* cannot access *raw*: No such file or directory sunny1:/dev # mkdir raw sunny1:/dev # cd raw sunny1:/dev # mknod raw5 c 162 5 sunny1:/dev # mknod raw6 c 162 6 sunny1:/dev # mknod raw7 c 162 7 sunny1:/dev # mknod raw8 c 162 8 sunny1:/dev # mknod raw9 c 162 9 sunny1:/dev/raw # ls -l crw-r--r-- 1 root root 162, 5 Mar 25 20:20 raw5 crw-r--r-- 1 root root 162, 6 Mar 25 20:20 raw6 crw-r--r-- 1 root root 162, 7 Mar 25 20:20 raw7 crw-r--r-- 1 root root 162, 8 Mar 25 20:21 raw8 crw-r--r-- 1 root root 162, 9 Mar 25 20:21 raw9 sunny1:/dev/raw # /etc/init.d/raw start sunny1:/dev/raw # /sbin/chkconfig raw on sunny1:/dev/raw # raw -qa Cannot open master raw device '/dev/rawctl' (No such file or directory) sunny1:/dev/raw # raw /dev/raw/raw5 /dev/sdb5 Cannot open master raw device '/dev/rawctl' (No such file or directory) Note: /dev/raw directory(with files: raw5,raw6,raw7,raw8, raw9 created by mknod ) gets deleted on reboot. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org