home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!cs.utexas.edu!convex!jhall
- From: jhall@convex.com (Jon Hall)
- Subject: Using more than 255 minor devices
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.185501.12759@convex.com>
- Sender: usenet@convex.com (news access account)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: convex1.convex.com
- Organization: CONVEX Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx., USA
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 18:55:01 GMT
- X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
- Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
- not necessarily those of CONVEX.
- Lines: 14
-
- I have an optical jukebox which has 144 shelves with 2 sided platters, so I
- need to have 288 minor devices. Since the max number of minor devices is 255
- (2^8), I decided to use consecutive major numbers.
-
- To get the first device sysgened in, I added a "USE: jb" entry to the system
- file, added a jb entry to the master.d directory, and then a "jb.o" driver
- module to the boot directory, and everything worked fine. But then I tried,
- adding a jb1 entry (with major # + 1) to the master.d directory, but the system
- still won't recognize that major number. So what else do I need to do??
-
- Please post the answer and don't send email
-
- Thanks!!
-
-