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Date:      Sun, 29 Dec 1996 19:13:12 -0500 (EST)
From:      Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com>
To:        henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: minor for sdXY naming convention ? (mknod,scsi)
Message-ID:  <199612300013.TAA16547@hda.hda.com>
In-Reply-To: <199612282220.RAA01348@crh.cl.msu.edu> from Charles Henrich at "Dec 28, 96 05:20:54 pm"

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> Im attempting to do mknod's for a bunch of wired disks, named as such:
> 
> sdCD    where C= Controller and D=Disk, so dev names that would look like so:
> 
>                 /dev/sd00s0
>                 /dev/sd01s0a
>                 /dev/sd02s0a
>                     .
>                     .
>                 /dev/sd20s0a
>                 /dev/sd21s0a
>                     .
>                     .
> 
> However I have as of yet been unable to decipher the esoteric notation for the
> minor number for said devices..  Anyone care to assist?  Please? :)
> 

Look at the SDSETUNIT macro in sd.c.  The decoding of the SCSI device
numbers can be in the driver.

-- 
Peter Dufault (dufault@hda.com)   Realtime Machine Control and Simulation
HD Associates, Inc.               Voice: 508 433 6936



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