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Date:      Tue, 14 Mar 2000 07:33:54 +0900 (JST)
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        "Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>
Cc:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc pccard.conf.sample
Message-ID:  <200003132233.HAA20097@daniel.sobral>
In-Reply-To: <200003132208.PAA39708@harmony.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at "Mar 13, 2000 03:08:08 pm"

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Unheedful of thy elder's warnings, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <200003132041.MAA53757@freefall.freebsd.org> "Daniel C. Sobral" writes:
> :   Rescan the SCSI bus of just-added aic devices, so they can be used
> :   during installation.
> :   
> 
> $device isn't quite the right thing to use, although it appears to
> work.  It evaluates to aic0, which strtol resolves to 0.  The rescan
> subcommand takes a scsi bus number to rescan, not the device name.
> That's why I hadn't committed it before now.
> 
> Personally, I'd love to see camcontrol take a device name and map it
> to the proper bus number here, but I'm too lazy to give Ken the
> patches to do this... :-)

Ah, that certainly goes to explain why it works for me. I never
suspected it used strtol instead of dtrt. It evaluates to aic1, for me,
btw.

I'm wondering if this should be backed out or not. Being able to install
from a cd-rom/hd through a pcmcia card is useful.

-- 
Daniel C. Sobral		  (8-DCS)
dcs@newsguy.com
dcs@freebsd.org

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