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Date:      Tue, 19 May 1998 19:17:55 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
To:        ken@plutotech.com (Kenneth D. Merry)
Cc:        gkoller@cs.vu.nl, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CAM/stable/BT-958 questions
Message-ID:  <199805191717.TAA01620@yedi.iaf.nl>
In-Reply-To: <199805190312.VAA17757@panzer.plutotech.com> from "Kenneth D. Merry" at "May 18, 98 09:12:14 pm"

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As Kenneth D. Merry wrote...
> Guido Kollerie wrote...

> 	If you have the passthrough driver in your kernel configuration,
> there will be one passthrough driver instance created for each SCSI device
> in your system.  By default, the passthrough driver doesn't announce itself
> on boot.  If you boot with -v, you will see the passthrough driver probe
> messages.
> 
> 	The passthrough driver allows programs like xmcd, tosha, cdrecord
> and camcontrol to function.  So it's highly recommended. :)

But only for machines for which you a very sure that no freaky hacker 
gains root access... A FORMAT UNIT is way faster than rm -rf / ...

Wilko
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