MAKEDEV is not smart enough... 

Forum: PCMCIA ATA/IDE Device Issues
Re: Shuttle Tech PCMCIA IDE/ATA HDD (Ronald Yeo)
Date: 1999, Dec 28
From: David Hinds <dhinds@pcmcia.sourceforge.org>

The current PCMCIA distribution has an updated ide startup script that knows how to create the hdk device files. Or, you can just do: mkdev /dev/hdk b 57 0 mkdev /dev/hdk1 b 57 1 mkdev /dev/hdk2 b 57 2 etc, by hand. -- Dave

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