50629 – Docking station hard disk (/dev/hde) not found by kernel 2.6/devfs

Bug 50629 - Docking station hard disk (/dev/hde) not found by kernel 2.6/devfs

Summary: Docking station hard disk (/dev/hde) not found by kernel 2.6/devfs

Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High major (vote)
Assignee:	x86-kernel@gentoo.org (DEPRECATED)

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Reported:	2004-05-10 05:11 UTC by Jean-Marc Petit
Modified:	2004-06-06 01:59 UTC (History)
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Description Jean-Marc Petit 2004-05-10 05:11:13 UTC

Installed Gentoo with LiveCD 2004.0. Updated portage and emerge on April 26, 2004.
From that tree, emerged developement-sources-2.6.6-rc1 and installed them.

Kernel 2.6.6-rc1 is up and running, using devfs, with devfsd running.

With all this, I can't see my second hard disk which is located in the docking station. Under RedHat 9.0, kernel 2.4.20, it appears as /dev/hde and work great. It's an IDE disk.

Computer: IBM Thinkpad A21p with 30GB disk in docking station.

No "hde" disk appears in /dev. How comes ?

Comment 1 Sven Wegener gentoo-dev

2004-05-10 09:52:59 UTC

hm, did redhat load a special kermel module to support the docking station?
if you still have access to this installation could you please check with
lsmod if there are any modules loaded?

i don't think that it's related to the fact that devfs has been deprecated
in 2.6 kernels. you might consider booting with devfs=nomount for testing
and for the future.

Comment 2 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-06-06 01:59:39 UTC

We can't do anything about this since the issue is in the upstream development sources; can you please file a bug with the upstream kernel developers at http://bugme.osdl.org? If you have a patch for this bug which we can add to Portage, or any other issues then please reopen this bug. Thanks!