here is a patch that was done a while ago for 2.2.16 that made DAC960 a
little smarter about devfs. not sure how it will apply today, but the
basic idea is there :)
-tduffy
On Mon, 28 May 2001, Martin Wilck wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> Are there any plans to resolve this problem in the near future?
> In particular, is it necessary to use /dev/rd for RAM disks rather than
> e.g. /dev/ramdisk ?
>
> Best regards,
> Martin
>
>
linux-2.2.16-DAC960-devfs-fixup.patch
Description: patch
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