From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jul 24 14:35:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA18124 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 14:35:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hp.com (hp.com [15.255.152.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA18118 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 14:35:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from srmail.sr.hp.com by hp.com with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA278014136; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 14:35:36 -0700 Received: from hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com by srmail.sr.hp.com with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA293474134; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 14:35:35 -0700 Received: from mina.sr.hp.com by hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com with SMTP (1.37.109.16/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA003034134; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 14:35:34 -0700 Message-Id: <199607242135.AA003034134@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Micropolis, again In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 24 Jul 1996 23:24:43 +0200." <822.838243483@critter.tfs.com> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 14:35:33 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > In message <199607242121.AA002163303@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com>, Darryl Okahata write > s: > >> Could we have a /etc/sysconfig option to enable AWRE and ARRE on all > >> scsi-disks in the system ? > > > > Are we sure that there aren't any buggy SCSI disks out there? > > That's why I want an >option< :-) Oh, duh. ;-) If it's an option, could we make it set AWRE/ARRE only if they aren't already set? It gives me the shivers to imagine an option that always touches the mode pages at bootup (what happens when power failures, bad SCSI cabling, bad termination, acts of God, etc. occur when setting the mode page?). -- Darryl Okahata Internet: darrylo@sr.hp.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Hewlett-Packard, or of the little green men that have been following him all day.