From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Feb 22 14:58:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA26370 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 14:58:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA26365 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 14:58:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA20502; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 23:58:24 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA07074; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 23:58:24 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id VAA26501; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 21:42:13 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199602222042.VAA26501@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: booting from wd2. To: darrenr@cyber.com.au (Darren Reed) Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 21:42:13 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199602221402.BAA05617@plum.cyber.com.au> from "Darren Reed" at Feb 23, 96 01:02:54 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Darren Reed wrote: > > > This is an interesting exercise, when you have wd0 and wd2... > has this been fixed yet ? No, the BIOS hasn't been fixed yet to provide a unique numbering scheme for disks. And it hasn't been fixed neither to properly return the information about its drive numbering/assignment at a known place. Mixtures of ST-506 and SCSI drives come even more interesting. :) You can force FreeBSD do not even consider a wd1 as the second disk of the first controller, so it can use the first disk of the second controller as wd1. The GENERIC kernel isn't configured this way however. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)