Re: DEVFSv50 and /dev/fb? (or /dev/fb/? ???)

Alex Buell (alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 6 Aug 1998 10:50:47 -0400 (EWT)


On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Anthony Barbachan wrote:

> This definitely has some useful qualities, however some things do not need
[ snip ]
> if not /dev/IDE/[0-7]. There is also only 4 possible standard serial ports
[ snip ]

I have two things to comment upon:

1) I didn't know one could have more than 4 EIDE devices. For which bus
architecture is this true for? PCI or ISA? How does this works? (I'm just
technically curious since I've got all 4 EIDE devices in my system and
have three more hard disks going begging that I'd love to reuse)

2) You've omitted partitions/slices from your suggestions. c0b0t0u0 is
still necessary to refer to the individual partition on that IDE device.

Cheers,
Alex

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