Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 07:56:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> To: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org Subject: Install bug for big minor numbers Message-ID: <199506061156.HAA16560@hda.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950606122646.3207K-100000@leo> from "Brian Tao" at Jun 6, 95 01:07:07 pm
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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
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