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

From: Matthias Scheler <tron@NetBSD.org>
To: Andreas Wrede <andreas@planix.com>
Cc: NetBSD GNATS <gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org>
Subject: Re: port-amd64/35532 (Impossible to update an amd64 to 4.0)
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 18:46:47 +0000

 On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 04:40:02PM +0000, Andreas Wrede wrote:
 >  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).
 
 I'll try to fit 8 wd(4) devices on the installation floppies.
 
 	Kind regards
 
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 Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/