[Doug Goldstein]

Christian Rivero wrote:
> Hi friends,
> I was looking for more details about the way hal "discover" a device,
> because when I attach an external ide HD (with hard drive password)
> the system can't assign a device into /dev directory.
> Could you help me with this issue?
> Regards
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HAL doesn't touch /dev at all. You would need to look into if you're
using udev and if so, follow up with your distribution's help regarding
that. Otherwise you're using a static /dev and it's up to you, the user,
to create your device node.