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Date:      Thu, 2 Sep 2004 00:14:21 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: 5.3-BETA displaying cd0 as an install target?
Message-ID:  <20040901221421.GA68334@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <200409011718.41943.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20040828153451.GA38901@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20040901210625.GA67683@freebie.xs4all.nl> <200409011718.41943.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 05:18:41PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote..
> On Wednesday 01 September 2004 05:06 pm, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 05:34:51PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote..
> >
> > > Did anyone see sysinstall listing cd0 as an install target
> > > on BETA1, on any other architecture than Alpha?
> > >
> > > On Alpha, sysinstall presents one with the option on partition
> > > and install on cd0.  Which is slightly daft..
> >
> > It only happens with SCSI CD drives, so things that turn up as cd0.
> > ATA CD drives aka acd0 do not get displayed by sysinstall.
> 
> This is probably GEOM related.  I wonder if cd0 uses the DISK class unlike 
> acd0 which uses its own ACD class.

I asked phk and he had no obvious issue in mind.  But I am not sure if he
has seen my email on the acd versus cd difference yet.

-- 
Wilko Bulte				wilko@FreeBSD.org



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