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2. Limits (standard devices)

There are some limits in this version of devinfo : it will only create a special number of devices (e.g. ramdisks, hda partitions). If one of these limits is unrealistic, please tell me. Most limits have no good reason, I just didn't want to create hundreds of devices, so I only created a few. If a limit is too low for you : a) please tell me and b) modify /etc/devinfo (should be easy).

ramdisks

8 devices ram[0-7]

ide harddisks

20 partitions each (devices hd[a-h])

xt harddisks

20 partitions each (devices xd[ab]

loopback

8 devices loop[0-7]

metadisk

4 devices md[0-3]

scsi cdrom

8 devices scd[0-7]

scsi generic

8 devices sg[0-7]

scsi tapes

8 devices st[0-7]

mscdex

4 cdrom devices dos_cd[0-3]

joysticks

2 devices each js[0-1] djs[0-1]

other cdroms

only one device created : sonycd, gscd, optcd, sjcd, hitcd, mcd, cdu535, aztcd, cm206cd, bpcd (if there are several cdroms possible : please tell me !)

serial

default bootdisks and base system will only have ttyS[0-3], but you can create all possible devices ttyS[0-63] with "MAKEDEV serial" or several additional devices with "MAKEDEV ttyS4 ttyS5 ...".


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