Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 00:32:59 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Comment on CAM README file... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9808040028200.309-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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Just a quick comment after figuring out what I was screwing up...
I just reinstalled a system from scratch, and am running 7 SCSI devices on
a bus right now. The README file mentions:
sh MAKEDEV xpt1 # The unit number is actually a count
# of devices to make. You only need 1
# xpt device, but you may need more than
# 5 pass through devices.
sh MAKEDEV pass5
The thing it doesn't mention is *why* you may need more then 5 pass
through devices :( I was just about to sending a problem report because I
couldn't get cdrecord to work, where looking at both truss and ktrace
didn't appear to be telling me anything useful...the problem was that it
appears that you need *one* pass device for each SCSI device in the
system...so, where I had 7 SCSI devices, I need to do a 'MAKEDEV 7', which
appears to have fixed the problem.
There is no 'pass' man page, so is it possible to have a note added to the
README detailing this? It might one of those "it should be obvious"
things, but it wasn't :(
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
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