Subject: Re: Missing device nodes
To: Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@Xtrmntr.org>
From: Robin Rawson-Tetley <robin@rawsontetley.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/30/2006 15:17:09
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Thanks - my ignorance showing through there! That sorted it out.

I had found the MAKEDEV script earlier but didn't realise I could pass a
SCSI device number (the comments at the top of the script don't mention
sd nodes)

Anyway, thanks for that!

Regards,

Rob

On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 04:13:01PM +0100, Lubomir Sedlacik wrote:
> hi,
>=20
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 02:56:39PM +0000, Robin Rawson-Tetley wrote:
> > Since the first 5 disks work perfectly is there some sort of arbitrary
> > limit on the number of disks per SCSI controller or something?
>=20
> no, it's just that by default there are only nodes for the first 5 sd(4)
> devices created in /dev.=20
>=20
> > It's not a big deal to me as I can swap it for sd2 (which isn't used
> > at present anyway) - just thought this was odd enough to report.
>=20
> just cd to /dev and run: ./MAKEDEV sd5
>=20
>=20
> regards,
>=20
> --=20
> -- Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@{NetBSD,Xtrmntr,silcnet}.org>   --



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