I have a MacBook1,1 which has a (probably) broken disk. The disk is a Seagate Momentus 5400.2 (60 GByte). I can hear it make "clicking noises" when the computer powers up.
Ubuntu Rescue Remix is able to boot the computer. But there is no /dev/sda[x] or /dev/hda[x] created.
So in a desperate attempt to get something off the disk I tried mknod to create /dev/sda.
sudo mknod /dev/sda b 8 0
This creates the device file and permission/ownership can be set.
But the kernel does not seem to be able to do anything with the device file:
sudo cat /dev/sda
cat: /dev/sda: No such device or address
or
sudo parted /dev/sda
Error: Error opening /dev/sda: No such device or address
As this is a SATA disk I believe the mknod command is correct. I also think the correct driver (ata_piix) is loaded. But it seems I am missing something here.
