Subject: Re: Problem using more than 8 partitions on RAID device
To: Rob Ginn <rob@sun701.nawcad.navy.mil>
From: Rick Kelly <rmk@toad.rmkhome.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/30/2002 18:05:43
Rob Ginn said:

>Hi,
>I'm having trouble using more that 8 partitions on
>my RAID device.  I'm running NetBSD 1.5.2 on an i386
>platform.

>I noticed the problem when I tried to do a newfs
>on rraid0i and was told it was in use.  When I
>looked in /dev I found out that the minor numbers
>for rraid0 repeat at 8 devices.  I checked the
>MAKEDEV code and that's how its configured to
>generate them.

I don't know about 1.5.2.

But:

NetBSD walrus 1.5.3_RC2 NetBSD 1.5.3_RC2 (WALRUS) #9: Tue May 14 22:37:57 MDT 2002     rmk@walrus:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/WALRUS i386


crw-r-----  1 root  operator  62,      0 May 30 18:00 rraid0a
crw-r-----  1 root  operator  62,      1 May 30 18:00 rraid0b
crw-r-----  1 root  operator  62,      2 May 30 18:00 rraid0c
crw-r-----  1 root  operator  62,      3 May 30 18:00 rraid0d
crw-r-----  1 root  operator  62,      4 May 30 18:00 rraid0e
crw-r-----  1 root  operator  62,      5 May 30 18:00 rraid0f
crw-r-----  1 root  operator  62,      6 May 30 18:00 rraid0g
crw-r-----  1 root  operator  62,      7 May 30 18:00 rraid0h
crw-r-----  1 root  operator  62, 524288 May 30 18:00 rraid0i
crw-r-----  1 root  operator  62, 524289 May 30 18:00 rraid0j
crw-r-----  1 root  operator  62, 524290 May 30 18:00 rraid0k
crw-r-----  1 root  operator  62, 524291 May 30 18:00 rraid0l
crw-r-----  1 root  operator  62, 524292 May 30 18:00 rraid0m
crw-r-----  1 root  operator  62, 524293 May 30 18:00 rraid0n
crw-r-----  1 root  operator  62, 524294 May 30 18:00 rraid0o
crw-r-----  1 root  operator  62, 524295 May 30 18:00 rraid0p


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