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Date:      Thu, 1 Jun 2000 23:50:26 -0600
From:      "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>
To:        John <papalia@udel.edu>
Cc:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, John Lengeling <johnl@raccoon.com>, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Dying connection?
Message-ID:  <20000601235026.A98092@panzer.kdm.org>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20000602013902.00ae1330@mail.udel.edu>; from papalia@udel.edu on Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 01:44:56AM -0400
References:  <Your <4.3.1.2.20000602012826.00ad4e90@mail.udel.edu> <200006020538.WAA01381@mass.cdrom.com> <4.3.1.2.20000602013902.00ae1330@mail.udel.edu>

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On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 01:44:56 -0400, John wrote:
> 
> > > Well, this kinda brings up another question that I had posted to
> > > freebsd-questions a few weeks back.... I found info describing *what* CAM
> > > is and is supposed to do (http://people.freebsd.org/~gibbs), but is 
> > there a
> > > read-me or a txt file or *anything* someplace to describe how to set it up
> > > and configure it correctly. Just point me in the right direction :)
> >
> >There's nothing to "set up" or "configure"; there are no
> >user-maintainable parts inside.  You have hardware issues; bitching about
> >CAM is entirely irrelevant.
> 
> This was NOT a bitch. It was a request for help and info.  I currently do 
> NOT have cam enabled, so it would be wrong for me to "bitch" about it.  I 
> simply don't want to go willy-nilly adding kernel options without making 
> sure that I'm doing it correctly.

Ahh, but you do have CAM enabled.  If you've got the scbus device in your
config file, you've got CAM.

So you probably don't need to add anything to your kernel config file,
unless you don't have the pass(4) driver configured.  (You can't get the
defects list off the drive with camcontrol(8) without it.)

Ken
-- 
Kenneth Merry
ken@kdm.org


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