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[funstur]

Can anybody advice me how to check for new device such as extra disks so I can mount them via fstab. I have tried cdrecord --scanbus. utils etc.

MT's funstur

 

[bubak]

For some devices U need just to run MAKEDEV (scrip from /dev/), but that are just devices, like serial, apralel ports, scsi adapters, but no direct hardware devices. For them you usually need module in kernel. EG if U want to mount windows hardrive, you need /dev/hdxx device and also vfat support in kernel. And probably support for yoour hardrive, if it's not a standart one.
Try to download som linux kernel sources and browse the Documentation directory.
bubak

 

[ifincham]

Hi,



Not sure what you want really... For ide you can do :



cat /proc/ide/hd*/model



for scsi



cat /proc/scsi/scsi



If you mean partitions you have to do a list version of fdisk (as root) :



for ide drives:

/sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hda

/sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hdb

etc ..

for scsi

/sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sda

/sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sdb

etc..



The linux devices list is here -->

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/device-list/devices.txt

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Regards