The following reply was made to PR port-amd64/35532; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Andreas Wrede <andreas@planix.com>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: port-amd64/35532 (Impossible to update an amd64 to 4.0)
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 11:38:45 -0500

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 On Feb 9, 2007, at 11:13 , tron@netbsd.org wrote:
 
 > Synopsis: Impossible to update an amd64 to 4.0
 >
 > State-Changed-From-To: closed->analyzed
 > State-Changed-By: tron@netbsd.org
 > State-Changed-When: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:13:37 +0000
 > State-Changed-Why:
 > There is another problem:
 > NetBSD-amd64 and NetBSD-i386 only provide one set of raid device  
 > nodes by
 > default which is not enough for a somewhat complex server setup. We  
 > should
 > provide four set of devices nodes (similar to hardware raid device  
 > notes).
 
 We should also up the number of disk (wd, sd) device nodes. I had to  
 disconnect a couple of drives on a 8 drive raid-server-to-be so that  
 I could install NetBSD on the intended boot drive (wd6).
 
 -- 
      aew
 
 
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