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Subject: i386/17713: MAKEDEV and /stand/sysinstall goofups with creating /dev/pass?
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>Number:         17713
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       MAKEDEV and /stand/sysinstall goofups with creating /dev/pass?
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Mar 31 10:00:01 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Paul H. Anderson
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.0-20000320-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
Public Data Queries, Inc.  (www.pdq.com)
>Environment:

Hardware is an AMI Megaplex II machine w/4GB RAM, 8 37GB IBM drives,
two Adaptec 29160 controllers, gigabit ethernet, etc.
	

>Description:

	

I followed custom install, as I have done many times in the past.
Nothing special - just initially configure minimal filesystems for
boot, kernel sources only install.  Later, I ran /stand/sysinstall
to setup the remaining 7 drives.

Problem 1: /stand/sysinstall apparently only created /dev/pass? for
drives 0 through 3.  I had to create 5-7 myself in order to use
camcontrol on the drives.  Not a big problem, but it leads to problem 2:

Problem 2: MAKEDEV gets confused about how many /dev/pass? devices
to make.  "cd /dev; sh MAKEDEV pass8" should be sufficient to create
devices /dev/pass0 through /dev/pass7.  Instead, it appeared to only
create /dev/pass0 through /dev/pass6.  I had to do: "cd /dev; sh MAKEDEV pass9"
before all pass devices were made.

>How-To-Repeat:

	

find a machine with 8 scsi disk drives, do a fresh install on it,
try using camcontrol to control drives 4 through 7, note that devices
/dev/pass? don't exist, try to create them, scratch head afterwards.

>Fix:

	

unsure - just reporting bugs as I see them

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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