> From: rhealey@kas.helios.mn.org (Rob Healey)
> 
> > On Aug 2, 11:42pm, Stephen J. Roznowski wrote:
> > > What is the point of having the devices /dev/sd7-9?
> > >
> > > It appears that nothing in the kernel will be assigned
> > > to these addresses. Should MAKEDEV be fixed?
> > 
> > I guess these are the left-overs aftern Chris invented this (IMHO not so
> > useful) new SCSI-encoding (sd0: first drive, ...). sd7-9 were used for
> > IDE-drives before, if I got that right.
> > 
> 	How about multiple disk controllers with lot's of drives? I realise
> 	most of us don't have > 2 disks and most aren't > 1G but we should
> 	think about future expansion...

Gotta learn to not post so late at night... :-)

Okay, now I have another complaint. :-) Why only 10 devices and
not 16 being created by default?

I'd like to see /dev/MAKEDEV updated to make all 16 when "std" is done,
please.

-SR

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