Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 14:32:53 +0800 (SGT) From: Gregory Hosler <gregory.hosler@eno.ericsson.se> To: Max TenEyck Woodbury <mtew@cds.duke.edu> Cc: Mike Brown <mbrown@cs.uml.edu>, aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Vincent Cojot <coyote@step.polymtl.ca> Subject: Re: Naive question: 2.2.x or 2.4.x drvconfig equivalent in the w Message-ID: <XFMail.010718143253.gregory.hosler@eno.ericsson.se> In-Reply-To: <3B548E87.8E881F22@cds.duke.edu>
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On 17-Jul-01 Max TenEyck Woodbury wrote: > Gregory Hosler wrote: >> >> On 17-Jul-01 Vincent Cojot wrote: >> >> When a scsi driver loads, either in kernel init, or when the driver itself >> is loaded (e.g. insmod in Linux), the driver will send a "test unit ready" >> to each possible lun on the scsi chain. It then makes note of what devices >> are >> available, and adds these to the scsi device list (/proc/scsi/scsi). As far >> as >> I am aware, this is ONLY done when the driver initializes itself, though the >> last time I spent alot of time in the scsi layer (i.e. above the driver >> layer) >> was circa 1.0 / 1.2, and some things have changed since then. > > I'd have not checked and I probably should, but hasn't the "test unit ready" > test been replaced by an "inquire" test. IIRC there was some discussion to > the effect that TUR was contra-standard. yes, I think it might have been, but the concept/idea and logic flow is otherwise essentially the same. rgds, -Greg ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Gregory Hosler <gregory.hosler@eno.ericsson.se> Date: 18-Jul-01 Time: 14:32:13 You can release software that's good, software that's inexpensive, or software that's available on time. You can usually release software that has 2 of these 3 attributes -- but not all 3. ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message
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