From owner-freebsd-scsi Mon Aug 3 20:33:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA21788 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Mon, 3 Aug 1998 20:33:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from thelab.hub.org (gw03.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.184.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA21782 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 1998 20:33:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA00501 for ; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 00:33:00 -0300 (ADT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 00:32:59 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Comment on CAM README file... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message