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Date:      Sat, 06 Aug 2005 13:09:16 -0600
From:      Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
To:        Lukas Ertl <le@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Matthias Schuendehuette <msch@snafu.de>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, scottl@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: mpt + gvinum on 6.0-BETA1
Message-ID:  <42F50ADC.6010901@samsco.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050806200003.R620@korben.prv.univie.ac.at>
References:  <04D55966-A390-45AE-A7B8-0828A9655053@snafu.de> <B7980F8A-52E8-43F2-B5D6-582FB5521A91@snafu.de> <20050806122309.O731@korben.prv.univie.ac.at> <42F4FA1A.2050107@samsco.org> <20050806200003.R620@korben.prv.univie.ac.at>

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Lukas Ertl wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, Scott Long wrote:
> 
>> Lukas Ertl wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> The mpt device is apparently not GEOM-aware.
>>
>>
>> How exactly does one make a device GEOM-aware?
> 
> 
> I don't know about mpt devices, but "normal" disk devices like da(4) and 
> ad(4) call disk_create() to setup a corresponding DISK geom.
> 
> regards,
> le
> 

mpt goes through CAM, which does the disk-create for da devices.

Scott



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