[PLUG] how to find out where my new SATA drive is

Mike De La Mater mikedela at theplatinumrule.com
Tue Apr 20 14:39:01 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 14:17, Chris Jantzen wrote:
> They aren't on-disk files. Their file size may have no relevance to
> their contents whatsoever. Try "cat /proc/devices", &co. instead. If
> you are actually booting to a prompt and "cat /proc/devices" returns
> absolutely nothing then there is something far more serious wrong with
> your setup.

I get it. here's the output
14:35:48 Tue Apr 20 [mike at rhws ~]$ cat /proc/devices
Character devices:
  1 mem
  2 pty
  3 ttyp
  4 ttyS
  5 cua
  6 lp
  7 vcs
 10 misc
 13 input
 14 sound
 21 sg
 29 fb
 36 netlink
109 lvm
128 ptm
129 ptm
130 ptm
131 ptm
132 ptm
133 ptm
134 ptm
135 ptm
136 pts
137 pts
138 pts
139 pts
140 pts
141 pts
142 pts
143 pts
162 raw
180 usb
195 nvidia

Block devices:
  1 ramdisk
  2 fd
  3 ide0
  7 loop
  8 sd
  9 md
 11 sr
 12 unnamed
 14 unnamed
 22 ide1
 38 unnamed
 39 unnamed
 58 lvm
 65 sd
 66 sd


Does that tell anyone anything?

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Mike De La Mater
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