Hello. For quite some time, I've got the following, strange behaviour: [12:44:07 alexander@server:/dev/discs] $ ll insgesamt 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 160 23. Jul 11:24 disc0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 140 23. Jul 11:24 disc1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 23. Jul 11:24 disc3 [12:34:48 alexander@server:/dev/discs] $ ll disc1 insgesamt 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 23. Jul 11:24 disc -> ../../hdd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 23. Jul 11:24 part -> ../../hde lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 23. Jul 11:24 part1 -> ../../hde1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 23. Jul 11:24 part2 -> ../../hde2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 23. Jul 11:24 part5 -> ../../hde5 [12:35:01 alexander@server:/dev/discs] $ pwd /dev/discs As you can see, /dev/discs/disc1/disc is a symlink to /dev/hdd and /dev/discs/disc1/part points to /dev/hde. Furhter, under /dev/discs, there's *no* "disc" link pointing to /dev/hde. Because of that, the hdparm init script fails to set the parameters for /dev/hde. In my system, I've got 4 IDE discs. Two on the on board controller (primary master and secondary master) and two attached to a pdc20xxx_old controlled Promise UDMA 100 controller (both times attached as masters). Further, I've got an IDE CD-Rom at /dev/hdc. Why is it, that the links in /dev/discs/disc1 are mostly (besides the disc) wrong and why is it, that there's no /dev/discs/disc2 directory with links? [12:44:23 alexander@server:/dev/discs] $ emerge info Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.12-ck3.009.reiser4_rc5-mm2.no-nfsv4.genkernel i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-ck3.009.reiser4_rc5-mm2.no-nfsv4.genkernel i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.11 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache collision-protect distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org/" LANG="de_DE.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="de" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X acl alsa apache2 apm arts artswrappersuid async avi bash-completion bluetooth bonobo calendar cdda cddb cdparanoia cdr cdrom codecs crypt cscope css cups dbus divx4linux dvdread encode esd ethereal exif fam fbcon fbdev ffmpeg fftw firefox flash foomaticdb ftp gd gdbm gif gimp gimpprint gmail gnokii gnome gphoto2 gpm gs gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile hal hpn iconv idn imagemagick imap imlib java javascript jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kdexdeltas libwww logitech-mouse logrotate lufsusermount lzw lzw-tiff mad maildir matroska matrox mbox mime mmap mmx mng mozdevelop moznocompose moznoirc mozp3p mozsvg mp3 mpeg mplayer ncurses network nls no-old-linux no_wxgtk1 noantlr nobcel nobeanutils nobsh nocommonslogging nocommonsnet nojdepend nojsch nojython nolog4j nooro nopop3d noregexp norhino noxalan noxerces offensive ofx ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam parse-clocks pcntl pcre pda pdflib perl pic pie png posix ppds python qt quicktime quotes rdesktop readline real recode samba sasl shared slang sockets speex spell sse ssl svg symlink sysvipc tcltk tcpd theora tidy tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb usepackagedmakefiles vcd videos vim vim-pager vim-with-x vorbis wmf wsconvert x11vnc xchattext xfs xine xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib video_cards_matrox linguas_de userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
udev version?
udev-064-r1
As far as I'm concerned, this bug is fixed since quite some time now. I've got not the faintest idea, since when. Closing.
