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Date:      Tue, 4 Apr 1995 19:37:48 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
To:        uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org (Frank Durda IV)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org
Subject:   Re: Suggestion on slow probing devices
Message-ID:  <199504050237.TAA05673@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <m0rwKc9-0004vtC@nemesis.lonestar.org> from "Frank Durda IV" at Apr 4, 95 09:14:00 pm

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> For FreeBSD something similar could be implemented, although I suggest
> adding an entry in kenrel config indicating if a given driver is capable
> of being probed twice so that we don't have to modify all the drivers
> at once.   If the driver isn't a two-pass driver, it would be probed
> only during the second pass, which would be equivalent to the pass
> that is done now.
> 
> Comments?
> 

Good Thinking!

All the SCSI-drivers are candidates, as well as any disk or CDROM drivers.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent'
=> 'no rude people are relevant'



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