From owner-freebsd-scsi Fri Mar 29 00:51:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA25464 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 00:51:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA25442 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 00:51:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA02707; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 09:50:45 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA26101; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 09:50:44 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id JAA29451; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 09:38:51 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603290838.JAA29451@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: SCSI refresh To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 09:38:51 +0100 (MET) Cc: khetan@chain.iafrica.com (Khetan Gajjar) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Khetan Gajjar" at Mar 24, 96 05:43:34 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Khetan Gajjar wrote: > > Of course -- but all you need is *just one* device on the SCSI bus. > > The -r option will reprobe the entire bus then. That's why i gave you > > /dev/rsd0.ctl as an example. > > Unfortunately, CD-ROM is *only* device on scsi bus :( Peter Dufault was thinking about a /dev/superscsi or something like this some time ago, but apparently, it has never made its way into the code. Well, perhaps we should also create device nodes for the SCSI busses (/dev/scsi0, /dev/scsi1)? All they can be used for are some basic ioctl's. Peter? Julian? -- 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. ;-)