Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 05:12:30 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, phk@critter.freebsd.dk Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, dcs@newsguy.com, sheldonh@iafrica.com, sos@freebsd.dk Subject: Re: ATAPI and ATAPI_STATIC with the new ATA* driver? Message-ID: <199903021812.FAA32656@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>>>> This breakage was announced :-). >>> >>>Besides, it is not even a breakage. It finally got _unbroken_. :-) >> >>It is breakage, and should be fixed. > >It isn't breakage when everybody else assigns identities to ATA disks >sequentially, irespective of how much other gunk (Ie: CD, Tape) is >present on the busses. Linux doesn't. It IDE cdroms to IDE drive minor numbers, e.g., hda = 1st controller, IDE drive hdb = 1st controller, IDE cdrom hdc = 2nd controller, IDE drive The sequencing of controllers isn't unique, so the breakage doesn't even work around the problem of mapping BIOS drive numbers to FreeBSD device names except in simple cases. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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