On Nov 13, 2007 4:11 PM, Scott Moseman <scmoseman at gmail.com>
wrote:> So I'm working with the iSCSI Initiator and an EqualLogic SAN. I'm
> not sure when this might have happened, but it appears that the
> /dev/sdc device is missing, yet the /dev/sdc1 partition exists AND is
> mountable. Is there a method to re-create the /dev/sdc device? I
> cannot dd or fdisk it, obviously, but I can mount the /dev/sdc1
> partition and it works just fine. Not having the /dev/sdc is messing
> up my multipath setup (let alone whatever else might be affected).
>
> scsi3 : SFNet iSCSI driver
> Vendor: EQLOGIC Model: 100E-00 Rev: 2.3
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
> SCSI device sdc: 8417280 512-byte hdwr sectors (4310 MB)
> SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write through
> SCSI device sdc: 8417280 512-byte hdwr sectors (4310 MB)
> SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write through
> sdc: sdc1
> Attached scsi disk sdc at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
>
> # ls -l /dev/sdc*
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 33 Nov 7 14:45 /dev/sdc1
Really weird. Anyway you can use mknod to create the missing device.
In your case mknod sdc b 8 32 should do the trick.
Regards,
Tim
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