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Date:      Fri, 21 Jun 1996 18:55:26 +0900
From:      Toshihiro Kanda <candy@fct.kgc.co.jp>
To:        Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com>
Cc:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: wd? numbering question 
Message-ID:  <199606210955.SAA03695@xxx.fct.kgc.co.jp>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 Jun 1996 01:35:25 MST." <199606210835.BAA00819@seagull.rtd.com> 

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In message <199606210835.BAA00819@seagull.rtd.com>, Don Yuniskis writes:
> > >   Thank you for your advice.  So, I ask again, why wd1 is not defined
> > > as "disk wd1 at wdc? drive ?" ?  Doesn't it work?
> > 
> > Don't think this would work -- but that doesn't mean it sounds
> > unreasonable.
> 
> I think you'll get bit because the /dev/wd* entries would need a different
> minor device encoding scheme (I'm assuming he's asking to have wd0 be the
> *first* wd drive and wd1 be the second -- regardless of which controller!
> so wd1 could end up on wdc1)

  Thank you again, my gurus. Yes, I thought it would be happy if my
second IDE (secondary-master) is probed as wd1.  GENERIC of BSD/OS 2.1
hints me :-)

> > Use send-pr(1) to submit your patches. :-)
> 
> Funny guy... ;-)

  I wish I could X-)  Or let boot(8) say

"Use 2d(0,a)/kernel to boot wd2 when wd1 is not installed..."

candy@fct.kgc.co.jp (Toshihiro Kanda)




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