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Date:      Sun, 24 Mar 1996 15:43:51 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, dave@kachina.jetcafe.org
Cc:        andreas@knobel.gun.de, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, julian@ref.tfs.com
Subject:   Re: Adding a damn 2nd disk
Message-ID:  <199603240443.PAA29189@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>>However, the system reads
>>the tables of the disk on the next open of a device on the disk provided
>>no other device on the disk is already open.  

>The raw device? So all I have to do is fdisk this again? 

Any device on the disk.  It depends on whether any other device on the
disk is already open.  Getting the complete list of open disks seems to
require looking at the output of `mount', `pstat -s' and `fstat'.  An
easier way to see if the tables are being refreshed is to set the
kernel's `bootverbose' flag by booting with -v or using a debugger
(e.g., echo 'set bootverbose=1' | gdb -k -w /kernel /dev/mem).  Then
the driver will print annoying messages about the tables when it refreshes
them.  More annoying messages can be printed by setting the kernel's
`dsi_debug' flag using a debugger.

Bruce



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