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Re: devfs & DAC960 ?

To: Martin Wilck <Martin.Wilck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: devfs & DAC960 ?
From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 10:48:34 -0400
Cc: devfs mailing list <devfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "Leonard N. Zubkoff" <lnz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Martin Wilck writes:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have observed that when using devfs in connection with the
> DAC960 driver for Mylex RAID, several things are going wrong:
> 
> - The Mylex partitions appear as /dev/rd/discX/partY, where
>   they should appear as /dev/rd/controllerX/discY/partZ.
>   (or whatever mnemonic one would use for "controller").
> 
> - devfsd generates no compatibility entries of the "old" DAC960 style
>   /dev/rd/cXdYpZ.
> 
> - Instead, /dev/rd is reserved for RAM disks in devfs.
> 
> I had a short e-mail exchange with Leonard Zubkoff, the DAC960
> maintainer, about this issue, and he said it was unresolved between
> Richard and him.

We've been talking about it. It just takes time because I'm so busy
(and I'm sure Leonard isn't idle either:-). Right now I'm on a
multi-conference trip, so don't have time to deal with it properly.

                                Regards,

                                        Richard....
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