[H-GEN] Not a valid block device

[Robert Brockway]

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On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Paul Cornford wrote:

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> Yes, these were the first things I tried. Actually the cdrom is set as 
> master on ide2 so I tried to mount /dev/hdc and this didn't work either. 

Do you mean ide1, which is the 2nd ide channel?  Ide2 would be /dev/hde &
/dev/hdf & would normally require additional hardware for a 3rd ide
channel.

> Then I tried hdd and so on. Sounds like a kernel upgrade is in order 
> though. Thanks for the help.

I haven't read the rest of the discussion so will hold back from making
comment on the rest of the proceedings :)
Rob

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