Re: Mylex DAC vs RAM disk in 2.4.2 devfs

2001-04-18 Thread Richard Gooch
Russell Coker writes: > I have just upgraded a machine with a Mylex DAC hardware RAID controller to > kernel 2.4.2 with devfs. > > It seems that /dev/rd is used by both the RAM disk in the kernel and the > Mylex controller! > > This is wrong of course, there are two problems, one is the situat

Re: Mylex DAC vs RAM disk in 2.4.2 devfs

2001-04-17 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Andreas Ferber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Hi, > > On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 01:22:01PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > > > Mylex controllers for a long time. I am willing to submit patches to the > > kernel and to devfsd i

Re: Mylex DAC vs RAM disk in 2.4.2 devfs

2001-04-17 Thread Andreas Ferber
Hi, On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 01:22:01PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > Mylex controllers for a long time. I am willing to submit patches to the > kernel and to devfsd if this suggestion is accepted and someone can suggest a > good directory name for ram-disks (I don't want to have the same prob

Mylex DAC vs RAM disk in 2.4.2 devfs

2001-04-17 Thread Russell Coker
I have just upgraded a machine with a Mylex DAC hardware RAID controller to kernel 2.4.2 with devfs. It seems that /dev/rd is used by both the RAM disk in the kernel and the Mylex controller! This is wrong of course, there are two problems, one is the situation of what happens if you need bot