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 -- Tim Verhoeven - tim.verhoeven.be at gmail.com - 0479 / 88 11 83 Hoping the problem magically goes away by ignoring it is the "microsoft approach to programming" and should never be allowed. (Linus Torvalds)