From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 17 4: 6:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (freebsd.dk [212.242.42.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A9FB154C2 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 04:06:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.9.1) id NAA25764; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 13:05:51 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos) From: Søren Schmidt Message-Id: <199903171205.NAA25764@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: How to add a new bootdevice to the new boot code ??? In-Reply-To: <19990317033240.A36782@relay.nuxi.com> from "David O'Brien" at "Mar 17, 1999 3:32:40 am" To: obrien@NUXI.com Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 13:05:51 +0100 (CET) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It seems David O'Brien wrote: > > Boot from an ata disk on major# 30, device name "ad", plain and simple. > > Does this mean ata disks won't come under CAM/da ? Not if I can help it :) It could be done by slamming a translation layer ontop of the existing wd driver or of cause on top of the new I'm doing, but all it adds is overhead, both performance wise and codesize wise. There is nothing that prohibits having both of cause, but it is not a priority for me to add more complexity into the picture before everything else is done. > If not, can we PLEASE rename SCSI disks back to ``sd''? No objections from me. But why, it will only confuse users once again... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message