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Date:      Sat, 5 Dec 1998 16:15:22 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Matthew Patton <patton@sysnet.net>
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CAM vs traditional devices
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.04.9812051614270.19384-100000@feral-gw>
In-Reply-To: <l03110700b28f7632b264@[192.168.1.10]>

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This isn't a SCSI issue. This is a slice issue. And I sure wish I could
figure it out sometimes. You probably need to ask freebsd-current about
this.

On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, Matthew Patton wrote:

> I'm lagging -current by a month or so but I have been running with CAM now
> for a while. I've noticed that the kernel probes the disks as daXX. I
> therefore converted all of my fstab entries to use daXy where y is the
> partition letter [a ~ g] except for the entry for root.
> 
> The kernel still thinks the root device is "sd0s1a". Why is that? Also how
> come none of the "da" devices have trailing partition letters? eg. there is
> "da0s1" and "da0a" but no "da0s1a". I am simply too far behind? The
> /dev/MAKEDEV script doesn't build them.



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