Subject: Re: sd7-9
To: Hubert Feyrer <c9020@rrzc1.rz.uni-regensburg.de>
From: Rob Healey <rhealey@kas.helios.mn.org>
List: amiga-dev
Date: 08/03/1994 08:42:22
> On Aug 2, 11:42pm, Stephen J. Roznowski wrote:
> > What is the point of having the devices /dev/sd7-9?
> >
> > It appears that nothing in the kernel will be assigned
> > to these addresses. Should MAKEDEV be fixed?
>
> I guess these are the left-overs aftern Chris invented this (IMHO not so
> useful) new SCSI-encoding (sd0: first drive, ...). sd7-9 were used for
> IDE-drives before, if I got that right.
>
How about multiple disk controllers with lot's of drives? I realise
most of us don't have > 2 disks and most aren't > 1G but we should
think about future expansion...
-Rob
------------------------------------------------------------------------------