On Tuesday 02 June 2009 17:16:26 Donald Allen wrote:
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> As I've mentioned in a previous thread, among the machines on which
> I'm running OpenBSD 4.5 is a Lenovo Thinkstation S10. 4 cores, 4 Gb
> memory, 2 146 Gb SAS disks on an LSI raid controller, arranged as a
> raid 0.
>
> Two questions:
>
> 1. In the past, running Linux, I've backed this machine up (to a sata
> drive in a usb shoebox) by booting a live- or install-cd, the idea
> being to have the system completely quiescent during the backup. I've
> been absolutely stymied in trying to do the same thing with OpenBSD.
> The install45 cd does not have enough sd* devices (the sd0 series
> only), so I can't mount both the raid 0 and the backup drive.

You can freely create additional devices:

# cd /etc && sh MAKEDEV sd1

For the rest of your mail - it's not clear, did you tried -CURRENT? I 
remember there were some commits related to X38...

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    Vadim Zhukov

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