Date: Sat, 12 Aug 1995 17:05:38 -0700 From: Pete Carah <pete@puffin.pelican.com> To: hardware@freebsd.org Message-ID: <199508130005.RAA22212@puffin.pelican.com> In-Reply-To: <199508121027.DAA05713@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
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In article <199508121027.DAA05713@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> you write: > >[Stuff about striped disks] > >> > >> > I hope mine is too... >> >> Now my question is how do you figure out what the mounting point >> is for each drive? > >You don't mount each drive, you mount a virtual device called a concatted >disk that has been told that these raw partitions are what create the >logical partition. > >On an Auspex this is done with an /etc file, with 4.4BSD lite it is >done in the kernel config file, with AAC's stripe driver it is done >with an ioctl right now, but will use the /etc file very similiar >to an Auspex once the user land commands are written for it. SGI uses /etc/lvtab for this. Video drives do have parallel analog amps on the head assembly, but now the trend is to stripe fast wide drives instead; saves custom hardware. --Pete
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