From owner-freebsd-scsi Mon Oct 26 11:40:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA13065 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 11:40:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA13060 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 11:40:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA00604; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 11:38:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810261938.LAA00604@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Do we support > 32 drives yet? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 26 Oct 1998 11:09:35 CST." <199810261709.LAA29710@bonkers.taronga.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 11:38:55 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > >/* > > 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