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To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
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Subject: Re: reprobing scsi 
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Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 21:38:23 -0800
From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Note that all this may work, or it may alternatively completely hang
>your machine, depending on the SCSI adapter you're using.  The SCSI
>reprobe code makes some incorrect assumptions and believes it would
>always be running at boot time...  There's no easy way out.
>
>Known to work: aha, bt, i think also ncr.  Known to hang: ahc.
>

The ahc driver is known to hang in versions earlier than -STABLE or -CURRENT.
It should work fine now, although I broke dumps in the process.  I
will be fixing that problem shortly.

>-- 
>cheers, J"org
>
>joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
>Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)

--
Justin T. Gibbs
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