-----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: Friday, August 07, 1998 12:50 AM
Subject: Re: DEVFSv50 and /dev/fb? (or /dev/fb/? ???)
>On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Anthony Barbachan wrote:
>
>> PCI, ISA, & VLB. The IDE standard allowed for up to four IDE cards in
>> a system, each capable of having a master and a slave. EIDE uses
>> simulates the presence of two cards. If you want to reuse those drive
>> you will have to get either a couple of ISA IDE adapters which can be
>> configured as teradary or quatrainary (something like that) or a PCI
>> (maybe ISA too) EIDE card which can be configured to be the third and
>> fourth chains.
>
>Ah, I see! Thanks for making that clear. I have a spare VLB controller
>which I am sure can be used as a tertinary/quad? device. I didn't know
>this was possible; but thanks, now I can kick some serious butt with RAID.
>Now where did I put it? Oh, I left it in England. :/
>
>> You do not need c0b0t0u0, there isn't that many possible EIDE devices.
>> /dev/hd[a-h] would do to address the actual device. Add a number to
>> that to access partitions on a disk. Simple, elegant, intuitive,
>> backwardly compatable, and not verbosely complex. and if you want a
>> c0.... type device then c0d0[p0] would do. (c = chain, d = device, p
>> = partitions if a drive)) But this is complicating the system to fix
>> something that is not broke. (for EIDE, not SCSI (I do not need flames
>> here))
>
>c0d0p0 will do fine. It makes logical sense to me now.
>
>Cheers,
>Alex
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>
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>
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