Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 14:25:37 -0500 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0 missing some docs? Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19981021142537.00fe1ff4@207.227.119.2> In-Reply-To: <199810211646.KAA10038@panzer.plutotech.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9810210932390.12705-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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At 10:46 AM 10/21/98 -0600, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:
>Actually, it isn't required. It's highly recommended, but optional. Some
>folks might want to disable it for security reasons.
There or not everything works. Don't understand the security part.
However the man page does make reference, but:
ls /dev/pa*
crw------- 1 root operator 31, 0 Oct 17 22:58 /dev/pass0
crw------- 1 root operator 31, 1 Oct 17 22:58 /dev/pass1
crw------- 1 root operator 31, 2 Oct 17 22:58 /dev/pass2
crw------- 1 root operator 31, 3 Oct 17 22:58 /dev/pass3
How can userland?
>I put warning messages in the transport layer so that when people go
>looking for a passthrough device, but don't have it in their kernel, they
>get hit on the head. I got tired of people asking me why camcontrol,
>cdrecord, or whatever didn't work. (don't worry, if you've asked me about
>that, you're in very good company...)
Have yet to try a CDR on FBSD, but plan to (Philips 2600). FBSD doesn't
seem to read Joilet from a M$ burn. A legend works for now, but I'd like
to burn "base" systems to CD for checking against.
>If you're looking for documentation on the passthrough driver, RTFM. ("man
>pass")
Don't believe I have a need to tinker with CAM, being transparent for the
most part, AFAIC. Was thinking more along the lines of whitepaper.
RTFM'ing man pages isn't fun, since references scatter one to the 4 winds.
Guess I don't know the practical benefits or if/should there be any
additional tweaks (mind you I only glaced through the pages and followed a
few references). There is plenty of options if you need to debug. 8-)
Somewhat related to what I started here is DPT card support. I've seen
plenty of references to the 3334 cards, but from the "CD"
HARDWARE.TXT:dpt n/a n/a n/a n/a DPT RAID SCSI
controllers.
RELNOTES.TXT:DPT SCSI/RAID controllers (most variants).
Wondering about 2044/2144 support? Plan to use the 3334 for a few servers
in the near future, but for home use a 2044 ($200) is sufficient. "Most
variants" means "no test drive method for me, thank you." Rather know
before buying or else it would be good for NT (bleh!). This should be more
clear, after all there are not that many models. Checked in the sources
and there is no reference for any model number, not suprising.
cheers!
Jeff Mountin - Unix Systems TCP/IP networking
jeff@mountin.net
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