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Re: strange sd entries /proc/devices
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dominik Kubla)
Tue Aug 1 06:15:54 2000
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 12:10:41 +0200
From: Dominik Kubla <dominik.kubla@uni-mainz.de>
To: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
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On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 11:28:59PM -0400, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
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> Seems a bit strange getting sd 3 times (rather than
> once (or 8 times to be pedantic)). My system is
> running the dreaded devfs. Do other people see
> similar things?
>
> BTW There is only one SCSI disk on my system.
"Read the source, Luke!" In order to support lots of scsi devices
(not uncommon on enterprise servers) we need mor minor device numbers.
under the current major/minor scheme we need more majors for this.
Dominik Kubla
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