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Date:      Tue, 6 Jun 1995 08:53:44 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com>
To:        jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Install bug for big minor numbers
Message-ID:  <199506061253.IAA16912@hda.com>
In-Reply-To: <18210.802442441@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jun 6, 95 05:40:41 am

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Jordan K. Hubbard writes:
> 
> > How is /dev being created, Jordan?  MAKEDEV will do it properly.
> > Are all the slices coming out OK?  They use those bits too.
> 
> They're all using MAKEDEV..

It still works:

> hda# cd /dev 
> hda# cp /usr/src/etc/etc.i386/MAKEDEV .
> hda# ls -lt rsd0.ctl
> crw-------  1 root  wheel   13, 536870912 May  3 08:59 rsd0.ctl
> hda# rm rsd0.ctl
> hda# sh MAKEDEV sd0
> hda# ls -lt rsd0.ctl
> crw-------  1 root  wheel   13, 536870912 Jun  6 08:50 rsd0.ctl
> hda# 

Brian: can you think of anything you did that may have broken things?
Bruce mentioned that "tar" loses on this.  Does anyone else have broken
control entries for the SCSI devices?

Peter

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