Re: multiple cd devices

2000-01-03 Thread Ben Rosengart
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote: As for ample warning: I've seen MAKEDEVs display a list of the devices they are creating. I think the Tru64 version does this. I myself think this is a good behaviour (and hope people won't start yelling 'bloat' for once) I like this idea a *lot*. --

Re: multiple cd devices (MAKEDEV)

2000-01-01 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Everything that sysinstall does WRT devs is abstracted by libdisk. On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 03:15:02PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote: Why are "certain" devices wildly different than all other ones? I've never encountered that kind of syntax

Re: multiple cd devices (MAKEDEV)

2000-01-01 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 03:15:02PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote: Why are "certain" devices wildly different than all other ones? I've never encountered that kind of syntax before, and I can't see that it's documented anywhere at all. Certainly,

Re: multiple cd devices

2000-01-01 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 01:45:31AM -0500, a little birdie told me that Brian Fundakowski Feldman remarked The way certain devices, like cd with its monotonically increasing counter where devices are probed in order and assigned device based on precedence and not hardwiring/controller

Re: multiple cd devices

1999-12-31 Thread Chris D. Faulhaber
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Chuck Robey wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: The way certain devices, like cd with its monotonically increasing counter where devices are probed in order and assigned device based on precedence and not hardwiring/controller connection,

Re: multiple cd devices

1999-12-31 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Chuck Robey wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: The way certain devices, like cd with its monotonically increasing counter where devices are probed in order and assigned device based on precedence and not hardwiring/controller connection,

Re: multiple cd devices

1999-12-31 Thread Jeroen C. van Gelderen
Bruce Evans wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Chuck Robey wrote: Why are "certain" devices wildly different than all other ones? I've Because the CAM update broke (SCSI) cd devices in rev.1.171 of MAKEDEV. mcd and scd were in the same case statement so they were broken too. The breakage

Re: multiple cd devices

1999-12-31 Thread Peter Wemm
"Jeroen C. van Gelderen" wrote: Bruce Evans wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Chuck Robey wrote: Why are "certain" devices wildly different than all other ones? I've Because the CAM update broke (SCSI) cd devices in rev.1.171 of MAKEDEV. mcd and scd were in the same case statement

multiple cd devices

1999-12-30 Thread Chuck Robey
I've been doing a lot of neatening up here, and one of the tasks was to get both of the cdrom drives I have (one per machine) moved over so that they are on the same machine. This was so I can use the one that's a writer in conjuntion with a reader, and do duplication. Anyhow, getting the

Re: multiple cd devices

1999-12-30 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
The way certain devices, like cd with its monotonically increasing counter where devices are probed in order and assigned device based on precedence and not hardwiring/controller connection, work is consistent between the kernel and MAKEDEV. If you have 2 cd devices, you have cd0 and cd1, so

Re: multiple cd devices

1999-12-30 Thread Chuck Robey
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: The way certain devices, like cd with its monotonically increasing counter where devices are probed in order and assigned device based on precedence and not hardwiring/controller connection, work is consistent between the kernel and

Sv: multiple cd devices

1999-12-30 Thread Leif Neland
From: Chuck Robey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 31, 1999 6:29 AM Subject: multiple cd devices Anyhow, getting the kernel to recognize cd1 was no problem, but getting /dev/MAKEDEV to do that was a hairy PITA. I couldn't locate, in either cd(4) or cd(9