From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jul 24 14:39:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA18429 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 14:39:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.tfs.com ([140.145.230.177]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA18413; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 14:39:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.tfs.com (localhost.tfs.com [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA00925; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 23:39:34 +0200 (MET DST) To: Darryl Okahata cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Micropolis, again In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 24 Jul 1996 14:35:33 PDT." <199607242135.AA003034134@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 23:39:34 +0200 Message-ID: <923.838244374@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199607242135.AA003034134@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com>, Darryl Okahata writes: >> In message <199607242121.AA002163303@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com>, Darryl Okahata writ >e >> s: >> >> Could we have a /etc/sysconfig option to enable AWRE and ARRE on all >> >> scsi-disks in the system ? >> > >> > Are we sure that there aren't any buggy SCSI disks out there? >> >> That's why I want an >option< :-) > > Oh, duh. ;-) > > If it's an option, could we make it set AWRE/ARRE only if they >aren't already set? It gives me the shivers to imagine an option that >always touches the mode pages at bootup (what happens when power >failures, bad SCSI cabling, bad termination, acts of God, etc. occur >when setting the mode page?). Sure, sounds fine with me. And a little comment above it telling why you may or may not want to :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.