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To: Branson Matheson <branson.matheson@ferginc.com>
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Subject: Re: Cyclades boards and Minor numbers 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 04 Jun 1997 16:20:26 EDT."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 15:16:58 -0700
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>	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.

   The man page is wrong. I fixed that some time ago to support more boards
as you can plug in.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project