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Date:      Fri, 10 Jan 1997 16:44:21 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul)
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 2.2-BETA and HP 12000e Superstore DAT changer
Message-ID:  <199701100614.QAA03154@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199701100547.AAA27283@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> from Bill Paul at "Jan 10, 97 00:46:58 am"

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Bill Paul stands accused of saying:
> 
> My question is: why does scsiconf not probe for other LUNs? In this

Because there are some devices out there that drop their lunch when
you probe at them with LU != 0.  You can add a quirk entry for your
HP tape drive (wildcard it so that it covers most drives with a similar
ID string) with the SC_MORE_LUS flag so that the kernel will probe
beyond LU 0.

> case I even deliberately wired down the devices to specific targets
> and LUNs, and the kernel _still_ wouldn't probe the changer until I
> munged the code. This strikes me as a little bogus: when I tell the
> kernel that there's a device at target 3, LUN 1, it should bleeding
> well probe for a device there.

Agreed.

> -Bill Paul            (212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu

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