Re: /dev/hdb LS120

On Sunday 25 August 2002 02:59, John Batistic wrote:
> Very interesting.
> Do you have any suggestions as to how I can actually fix my problem. I'm
> about to give up on Gentoo.
>
> On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 13:47, Rob Smith wrote:
> > Well, with devfs, Gentoo doesn't deal with /dev, the kernel takes care of
> > that, and thus if the kernel feels that the drive is valid, it creates
> > the /dev entry automatically. It most likely is not Gentoo's fault in
> > this case.

If it looks like a kernel problem, then you could try a different kernel.

Gentoo uses a customised kernel. This is a good thing IMO, but may be causing 
your problem. Maybe you could try emerging vanilla-sources or redhat-sources.