On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:12:40 GMT, Bela Lubkin <belal@sco.com> wrote:

>Frederico Fonseca wrote:
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>> Out of curiosity do you know if the above construct (using the correct
>> minor/major) would work with a SCSI environment?
>
>See hd(HW). The minor number scheme described there applies to all hard
>disks on an OpenServer system, using any of the various disk drivers (in
>order of my guess of their current popularity: wd, Sdsk, ida, Dsk, esdi,
>st, omti). The major number would have to be adjusted to match the
>driver being used.
>
>But again, that just makes device nodes that point to the starts of the
>various constructs known to the disk partitioning driver (dk). If the
>partition or divvy tables are corrupt, no amount of fiddling with minor
>numbers will find your data.

Thanks Bela




Frederico Fonseca
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