From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jun 7 15:26: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from easynet-gw.netvalue.fr (easynet-gw.netvalue.fr [212.180.121.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E50E37B401 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 15:26:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from erwan@netvalue.com) Received: from mail.netvalue.fr (unknown [192.168.1.13]) by easynet-gw.netvalue.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id D18E28C48 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 00:26:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-fr.netvalue.fr ([192.168.1.18]) by mail.netvalue.fr (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA5C7 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 00:26:01 +0200 Received: from netvalue.com ([192.168.1.170]) by mail-fr.netvalue.fr (Netscape Messaging Server 4.01) with ESMTP id GEKZNB00.S4L; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 00:25:59 +0200 Message-ID: <3B1FFF77.38CE6CF0@netvalue.com> Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 00:25:59 +0200 From: Erwan Arzur Organization: NetValue Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en, fr-FR MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cooked/raw ad0 References: <20010605133813.F14469@pir.net> <56850000.991763350@vpn16.ece.cmu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" wrote: > > Sounds to me like he's trying to use a VMware "raw disk", which is > documented to not work (it expects Linux major numbers). > Hello, My raw disk configuration used to work until all block devices were pulled out in favor of character mode ones. Knowing in advance that it was not a very brilliant solution, i tried this mknod hda c 116 0x00010002 in /usr/compat/linux/dev, to no avail. Is there any way to get back a block device interface for the ata driver, at least some kind of bridge in the linuxator ? (i guess Linux kept its block devices ... am i wrong ?) I'm not really a kernel hacker, but one could lead me to the right direction ? -- UNIX *IS* user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are. --unknown To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message