From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 17 11:46: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from phk.freebsd.dk (phk.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18E4B1540F for ; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 11:45:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by phk.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA01021; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 20:45:40 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id UAA43437; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 20:45:32 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: obrien@NUXI.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to add a new bootdevice to the new boot code ??? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 17 Mar 1999 11:39:18 PST." <19990317113918.B39105@relay.nuxi.com> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 20:45:32 +0100 Message-ID: <43435.921699932@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <19990317113918.B39105@relay.nuxi.com>, "David O'Brien" writes: >> >People are asking for: >> > >> >wd0, ... >> >da0, ... >> > >> >Ie, join ad and da namespaces. >> >> If you want to join anything, go directly to "disk%d" instead. > >But that is not the "deal" that was presented to us when we had to endure >the gratuitous sd->da name change. The whole justification was a single >device name for disks (and what ever else is direct access). The fact that Justin promised that "ATA ***Could***" use CAM, didn't seem to imply to me that it would, unless somebody wrote code for it. That didn't happen. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message