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Date:      Mon, 26 Oct 1998 11:38:55 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Cc:        scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Do we support > 32 drives yet? 
Message-ID:  <199810261938.LAA00604@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 26 Oct 1998 11:09:35 CST." <199810261709.LAA29710@bonkers.taronga.com> 

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> 
> >/*
> >       3                   2                   1                   0
> >     1 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
> >    _________________________________________________________________
> >    | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
> >    -----------------------------------------------------------------
> >    |    TYPE     |UNIT_2 | SLICE   |  MAJOR?       |  UNIT   |PART |
> >    -----------------------------------------------------------------
> >*/
> 
> Other than hardcoding device numbers in the config file, is there any way of
> tying a device to a particular bus/target/lun combination the way you can
> in Digital UNIX and in System-V derived systems where this data is encoded
> into the minor number?

No.  DEVFS would have let us do this (via multiple appearances of a 
single node), but that kinda got killed off.

> Digital UNIX has a terrific SCSI subsystem, but it looks like FreeBSD is
> dogging its heels. This is one of the things keeping DU ahead.

DEVFS.  DEVFS.  DEVFS.  8)

-- 
\\  Sometimes you're ahead,       \\  Mike Smith
\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
\\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\  end it's only with yourself.  \\  msmith@cdrom.com



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