From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 5 22:38:03 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id WAA28960 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 22:38:03 -0700 Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.34]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA28954 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 22:37:59 -0700 Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id PAA26953; Tue, 6 Jun 1995 15:32:46 +1000 Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 15:32:46 +1000 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199506060532.PAA26953@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: dufault@hda.com, taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw Subject: Re: Quantum hardware errors (Deferred Error: HARDWARE FAILURE asc:87,0) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >> That isn't nice. Here is what /dev/rsd0.ctl looks like on my >> system: >> >> > 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 > I mknod'd a 13:536870912 character special file and now it works. >Did the 2.0.5 installation mess up the minor device numbers? I don't Certain methods of copying files (such as tar) silently lose the high bits in the minor number :-(. cp -pR, dump/restore and `cpio -H newc' are known to work. Bruce