Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 16:20:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Branson Matheson <branson@ferginc.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Cyclades boards and Minor numbers Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970604152038.8179D-100000@toth.hq.ferg.com>
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I am currently running stock 2.2.1 on a P120 with 32mb of ram. I have
been using two cyclades boards with lots of sucess for some time now.
This allows me to have all my large system consoles on a single
box... and I can attach to them using watch -W. This is good and life
is grand. However... ( and you could just hear it comming... )
Since I like this soo much... I wanted to add another board. This
makes the third cy 8 port board. And lo and behold, the man page says
rather cryptically:
The naming scheme and the minor numbering scheme limit the number
of ports to 32.
Which... when put together with the number scheme used, gives me only
two boards supported. This is because the driver assumes 32 port
boards and restarts the minor number 32 positions up for the second
board. I tried making a change to cyreg.h to lower that assumption
to 16 ports.... but it didn't work. So what I am looking for is the
possibility of making this machine support more than two boards. Is
this possible?
Reply directly please as this address is not on -questions. Thanks.
- branson
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Branson Matheson " If you are falling off of a mountain,
System Administrator You may as well try to fly."
Ferguson Enterprises - Delenn, Mimbari Ambassador
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