Re: dac960 devices on boot-floppies
On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 07:01:49PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Mark van Walraven <markv@wave.co.nz> writes:
> > I only ever bothered to create nodes for drives 0-3. Perhaps it would
> > be acceptable to drop the other 28. Or perhaps keep only 8 drives.
>
> I not quite sure I understand this -- I'm just running MAKEDEV
> dac960.0. That makes rd/c0d{0..31}*. You're saying I can safely
> delete rd/c0d{4..31} ?
Yes - provided you don't mind the installer only being able to see the
first four (or however many you choose) drives. Hopefully there is a
happy medium between too few drives and too many devices.
> > Does it matter that much? Ramdisk, right?
>
> Yup. It's not critical... but it seems like a lotta devices.
And that's for only one controller! In the long term, I think it will
become necessary to populate /dev by probing.
Regards,
Mark.
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