Re: [SLE] "wrong major or minor number"
w7ntf@aol.com wrote:
When I upgraded to SuSE Linux v6.4 from v6.3, all of a sudden my atapi/ide zip drive, atapi/ide cdrom drive, and floppy drive stopped working... I get an error message "/dev/xxxx has wrong major or minor number" when I try to mount any of them from Xwindows or command line... Has anyone else encountered this? Everything worked perfectly both on the command line as well as in Xwindows before I did a complete/full install of SuSE v6.4. Does anyone have any suggestions? I've removed all of the offending devices from FSTAB and tried to mount them manually and still get the same bogus error messages. Thanks in advance for any help you might provide...
What are you trying to mount these as? Is it a special type of floppy drive? This could be because the ide-scsi module has taken over, in which case the CD and/or Zip drive may be seen as Generic SCSI devices. Try running 'sgcheck' and see if that turns anything up. Other than that, check to see if the /dev/xxxx entries actually exist with the correct major/minor numbers (as seen in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt) - if in doubt post the output to the list. See how far you get with that, Chris -- Sorry everybody - all the servers at the ISP I use for email have been down for the past four days. They've come back up again, so now I have to catch up on all that mail... __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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