From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Apr 5 19:14:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA00974 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 19:14:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA00968 for ; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 19:14:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id NAA02863; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 13:08:16 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199604060338.NAA02863@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Some solutions to disk problems.... I think. To: Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com (Brett Glass) Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 13:08:16 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9603048286.AA828655946@ccgate.infoworld.com> from "Brett Glass" at Apr 4, 96 02:49:50 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Brett Glass stands accused of saying: > > are dynamically allocated at probe time, much too late for something > > like userconfig() to be of use. > > Then what are the configuration flags for devices such as cd0, etc.? > Chopped liver? ;-) There are no configuration flags for the SCSI devices. The collection : device st0 device sd0 device cd0 provides for an unlimited number of tape, disk and CDrom devices. Because the devices are created _at_probe_time_, there are no exposed flags. The devices don't exist beforehand, ergo they cannot possibly have flags to expose. Whilst one could, concievably, specify a 'flags' argument to a hardwired SCSI device, the value isn't consulted, so it doesn't count as exposed 8) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[