Is there something sppecial about pass4 ?

[Kenneth D. Merry]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 15:59:33 +0100, Pete French wrote:
> Machine is 4.8-STABLE
> 
> smaug# camcontrol devlist
> <COMPAQ BD009122BA 3B07>           at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (pass0,da0)
> <COMPAQ BD009122C6 B016>           at scbus0 target 1 lun 0 (pass1,da1)
> <COMPAQ BD009122BA 3B07>           at scbus0 target 2 lun 0 (pass2,da2)
> <COMPAQ BD00962373 BCJE>           at scbus0 target 3 lun 0 (pass3,da3)
> <IBM IC35L018UCPR15-0 S70H>        at scbus0 target 5 lun 0 (pass4,da4)
> 
> smaug# ls -l /dev/pass*
> crw-------  1 root  operator   31,   0 Jun 26 15:54 /dev/pass0
> crw-------  1 root  operator   31,   1 Jun 26 15:54 /dev/pass1
> crw-------  1 root  operator   31,   2 Jun 26 15:54 /dev/pass2
> crw-------  1 root  operator   31,   3 Jun 26 15:54 /dev/pass3
> 
> No pass4. I cant make pass4 with MAKEDEV either - plus I note that
> in the MAKEDEV scrip then 'all' explicitly does 'sh MAKEDEV pass4 xpt2'
> 
> using mknod by hand seems to work - but I cant see why MAKEDEV wont do it.

The number for the passthrough device is actually how many to make.  So
when you do a MAKEDEV pass4, you get pass0-3.

So try:

sh MAKEDEV pass8

You should wind up with pass0-pass7.

Ken
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Kenneth Merry
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