Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 18:19:23 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@iki.fi> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@iafrica.com>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATAPI and ATAPI_STATIC with the new ATA* driver? Message-ID: <199903060219.SAA64778@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "04 Mar 1999 13:05:39 %2B0200." <86iuchms58.fsf@not.oeno.com>
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It's been like this with SCSI disks since day #1. I don't see it ever having been quite the disaster of epic proportions that you make it out to be. > When a boot fails with something like /dev/rwd2s1g: Device not configured, > how long will it take you to figure out that it was actually wd1 that > didn't probe and what is now visible as wd1 is what you used to know as > wd2? If the disks are identical, you have to look carefully at the boot > messages. If that isn't a POLA violation, what is? Talk about "bike shelter" material. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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