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Date:      Tue, 17 Nov 1998 13:45:30 -0500 (EST)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>
To:        Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
Cc:        FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@teaser.fr>
Subject:   Re: ZIP+ and NatSemi parallel port chipst (was Re: ZIP, again)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811171340520.27295-100000@picnic.mat.net>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.981117192022.asmodai@wxs.nl>

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On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:

> On 17-Nov-98 Chuck Robey wrote:
> > On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:
> 
> >> Well it gets probed as da2... Except all my devices in fstab are still sd
> >> instead of their da counterparts. I wanted to convert them, but found the
> >> man-pages to be sketchy at best, and since I don't want to disable my system
> >> again ;)
> > 
> > The sd* and da* devices have the same major/minor numbers.  Cam is
> > color-blind at that range, you haven't anything to worry about.  It's
> > probably a good idea to update your devices and fstab, against some
> > future change, but right now, it doesn't matter.
> 
> Well, let's put it like this:
> 
> I have tried every ./MAKEDEV I knew to get the equivalents of my current used
> sd* entries. Or am I supposed to disklabel them to da counterparts first and
> then MAKEDEV and update /etc/fstab?
> 
> I really couldn't find any good pointers on this. With most of the da manpages
> still in the fingers ;) (the 9 section).

You miss the point ... it's a name only, and disklabel is going by the
major/minor numbers, and can't even see it.  If you rename the files in
/dev (the sd# -> da#) and change your fstab, you'll be complete.  Better
yet, copy the sd# into da#, at which time your fstab can use either set
of numbers, so you don't stand any chance of hurting yourself.

I'm not certain this is a subject for current (cam is released on cdrom
now).  Let's post followups (if any) to questions or hackers, ok?

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