From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue May 19 10:23:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA01394 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Tue, 19 May 1998 10:23:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA01379 for ; Tue, 19 May 1998 10:23:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA30443 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG); Tue, 19 May 1998 19:23:11 +0200 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.7/8.6.12) id TAA01620; Tue, 19 May 1998 19:17:55 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199805191717.TAA01620@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: CAM/stable/BT-958 questions In-Reply-To: <199805190312.VAA17757@panzer.plutotech.com> from "Kenneth D. Merry" at "May 18, 98 09:12:14 pm" To: ken@plutotech.com (Kenneth D. Merry) Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 19:17:55 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: gkoller@cs.vu.nl, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko @ yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW: http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message