Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 17:07:52 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, terry@cs.weber.edu Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Subject: Re: More serial console stuff... Message-ID: <199501250607.RAA18320@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>For example, say I have no built in controller in the system and two SCSI >controllers that support chaining. >Each SCSI controller has two identical drives on it. >The kernel is loaded via BIOS and is passed drive ID 0x82. >On which controller does this drive reside? >The actual residence of the drive is determined by BIOS chaining order. >The apparent-to-the-kernel residence of the drive is dependent on the >controller probe order. >Now do you see what I mean? It's what I thought I said :-). There is no standard way to decide how the drives are mapped. We're not going to be able to decide without asking the user. Bruce
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