Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 21 Jun 2004 14:20:11 -0600
From:      Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org>
To:        Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ciss ciss.c cissreg.h cissvar.h
Message-ID:  <40D742FB.5080301@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <200406212018.i5LKIeoN012306@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200406212018.i5LKIeoN012306@repoman.freebsd.org>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Scott Long wrote:

> scottl      2004-06-21 20:18:40 UTC
> 
>   FreeBSD src repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sys/dev/ciss         ciss.c cissreg.h cissvar.h 
>   Log:
>   Add SCSI passthrough support to CISS.  This allows devices like tape drives
>   that are on a CISS bus to be exported up to CAM and made available as normal
>   devices.  This will typically add one or two buses to CAM, which will be
>   numbered starting at 32 to allow room for CISS proxy buses.  Also, the CISS
>   firmware usually hides disk devices, but these can also be exposed as 'pass'
>   devices if you set the hw.ciss.expose_hidden_physical tunable.
>   
>   Sponsored by:   Tape Laboratories, Inc.
>   MFC After: 3 days
>   

Forgot to thank Paul Saab for testing this work and pointing me in the
right direction in places.

Scott



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?40D742FB.5080301>