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David Kosenko wrote:

> Running SCO 5 at work on a Dell Dimension.  I was requested to add an additional
> drive to the box (I did not do the original install, btw).  According to the SCO
> docs, I should have been able to add the drive, reboot, and run a command (mkdev
> hd) to configure the new drive.  It is the slave drive on the primary IDE, and
> the BIOS recognizes it at bootup.  But when I run the mkdev hd, and it gets to
> the fdisk portion of the script, it tells me there is no device for the disk.
> Is the slave drive on the primary ide not disk 2, controller 0?  I also tried
> disk 1 (thinking disks 0 & 1) on controller  0 and controller 1.  The devices
> just aren't there (and don't seem to get created) in /dev/rdsk, which is what
> fdisk is trying to open.  Is there some additional step I have to take here?
> Were it a Sun box, I'd just run a boot -r to find new devices and build the
> driver files, but I'm at a loss as to how to do this on a SCO box.
>
> Thanks much,
> Dave

Which release of OSR 5 are you running?   If it is 5.05 try running
/etc/ideMap.
"1 0 0 0"            string
   |  |   | +-------Secondary IDE Controller Slave  device
   |  |  +--------Secondary IDE Controller Master device
   | +--------- Primary   IDE Controller Slave  device
  +---------- Primary   IDE Controller Master device

This can tell you what the driver saw.

-johng

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