Description of problem: I am trying to configure my Fedora 8 system to automatically back up the selected directory to the selected volume on a nightly basis. Toward this goal, I wrote a program to select a filesystem based on a tag on the solid-state device for use in my backup script. This worked fine when I was only making one nightly backup. But when I tried to add a third solid-state drive to my system, it did not create a device for it and, consequently, I could not mount it.
Fixed with MAKEDEV
The additional USB drives are not attached to the new sd*1
So hal does not create device nodes; this sounds more like a kernel / udev problem. Suggest to include more information, for example dmesg output etc.
Now all the devices are attached. There seems to be an intermittent error, but I don't have any idea how to reproduce it.
dmesg, /var/log/messages, etc... more information please.
After I created the devices with MAKEDEV, it didn't initially connect the usb drives to them, but now it does. I never rebooted the system.
which devices did you create what is the output of # dmesg and any relevant information in /var/log/messages? what is the output of # lsusb
The devices that I created were /dev/sdd /dev/sde /dev/sdf. The rest of the information will have to wait until I get home.
Created attachment 303185 [details] dmesg, lsusb This contains the output of dmesg and lsusb. It is not necessary to comment on the cooling problems in my system, I am aware of it.
The lsusb got cut off. Sorry. Here it is in full. [mikey@mikey-ws ~]$ /sbin/lsusb Bus 001 Device 034: ID 13fe:1d00 Kingston Technology Company Inc. DataTraveler 2.0 1GB/4GB Flash Drive Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 005 Device 002: ID 124a:168b AirVast Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 004 Device 020: ID 13fe:1d00 Kingston Technology Company Inc. DataTraveler 2.0 1GB/4GB Flash Drive Bus 004 Device 003: ID 13fe:1d00 Kingston Technology Company Inc. DataTraveler 2.0 1GB/4GB Flash Drive Bus 004 Device 002: ID 058f:9254 Alcor Micro Corp. Hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 003: ID 03f0:7604 Hewlett-Packard Deskjet 3940 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
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