Date: 29 Sep 2000 09:46:40 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Robert Clark <res03db2@gte.net> Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, dot@dotat.at, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, ragnar@sysabend.org Subject: Re: Ideas about network interfaces. Message-ID: <xzpu2azabdr.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Robert Clark's message of "Thu, 28 Sep 2000 23:36:23 -0700 (PDT)" References: <200009290636.XAA01285@gte.net>
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Robert Clark <res03db2@gte.net> writes: > My thought, is that we don't name our disk devices based > on the brand of the scsi controller. Why do we specify > an interface to talk to, based on a brand name. Because the SCSI disk driver does not know about SCSI controllers. It talks to CAM, and CAM passes commands to the SCSI controller, and SCSI controller drivers *do* have different names depending on the brand, so your analogy fails. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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