From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 3 02:52:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id CAA12760 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 02:52:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id CAA12700 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 02:51:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id LAA27039 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 11:51:29 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA04586 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 11:51:29 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id LAA14174; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 11:23:00 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 11:23:00 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: more than 32 disks? References: <199701030329.TAA18783@root.com> <199701030430.XAA20956@crh.cl.msu.edu> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199701030430.XAA20956@crh.cl.msu.edu>; from Charles Henrich on Jan 2, 1997 23:30:08 -0500 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Charles Henrich wrote: > Hmm. The system boot appears to assign the sd32 device just peachy, just > MAKEDEV dying. The kernel assigns sd32, but you can't access it through any device node. MAKEDEV is only enforcing what the drivers are doing anyway. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)