Re: DEVFSv50 and /dev/fb? (or /dev/fb/? ???)

Anthony Barbachan (barbacha@trill.cis.fordham.edu)
Thu, 6 Aug 1998 23:56:34 -0400


-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Buell <alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk>
To: Anthony Barbachan <barbacha@trill.cis.fordham.edu>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
Date: Thursday, August 06, 1998 4:53 PM
Subject: Re: DEVFSv50 and /dev/fb? (or /dev/fb/? ???)

>On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Anthony Barbachan wrote:
>
>> This definitely has some useful qualities, however some things do not
need
>[ snip ]
>> if not /dev/IDE/[0-7]. There is also only 4 possible standard serial
ports
>[ snip ]
>
>I have two things to comment upon:
>
>1) I didn't know one could have more than 4 EIDE devices. For which bus
>architecture is this true for? PCI or ISA? How does this works? (I'm just
>technically curious since I've got all 4 EIDE devices in my system and
>have three more hard disks going begging that I'd love to reuse)
>

Both. You just need a card or cards that possition its IDE chains as the
terandery and quatrainary ones.

>2) You've omitted partitions/slices from your suggestions. c0b0t0u0 is
>still necessary to refer to the individual partition on that IDE device.
>

No I haven't just left it out. Add a partition number to the above or a 'p'
+ a partition number. Or even better keep /dev/hd[a-h]. No need to change
as there can only be 8 devices.

>Cheers,
>Alex
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