From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 6 04:57:47 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id EAA17010 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 6 Jun 1995 04:57:47 -0700 Received: from hda.com (hda.com [199.232.40.182]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA17004 ; Tue, 6 Jun 1995 04:57:44 -0700 Received: (dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.11/8.3) id HAA16560; Tue, 6 Jun 1995 07:56:53 -0400 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199506061156.HAA16560@hda.com> Subject: Install bug for big minor numbers To: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao) Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 07:56:53 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Brian Tao" at Jun 6, 95 01:07:07 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1041 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Brian Tao writes: (... About an install bug for device nodes with high minor number bits set...) > > > crw------- 1 root wheel 13, 536870912 May 3 08:59 /dev/rsd0.ctl > > No, the minor numbers on my rsd*.ctl devices are completely > different: > > crw------- 1 root wheel 13, 0 May 29 20:48 /dev/rsd0.ctl > crw------- 1 root wheel 13, 8 May 29 20:48 /dev/rsd1.ctl > crw------- 1 root wheel 13, 16 May 29 20:48 /dev/rsd2.ctl > crw------- 1 root wheel 13, 24 May 29 20:48 /dev/rsd3.ctl Apparently the install is breaking them. This is due to something falling down on the new 'big' minor numbers. 536870912 = 0x20000000, all of those minor numbers should have that bit set plus the preserved low bits. How is /dev being created, Jordan? MAKEDEV will do it properly. Are all the slices coming out OK? They use those bits too. Peter -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267