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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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