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From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
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Subject: Re: Returned mail: Re: Booting from second hard drive (SCSI) problems (Again!!)
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 13:19:44 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, hackers@FreeBSD.org
In-Reply-To: <199504211448.AAA23965@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Apr 22, 95 00:48:35 am
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you are right
I appologise and will fix the code..
julian

> 
> >> >#ifdef  BOOT_HD
> >> >        maj = (drive&0x80 ? 0 : 1);             /* a good first bet */
> >> >#else   
> >> >        maj = (drive&0x80 ? 0 : 2);             /* a good first bet */
> >> >#endif  
> >> 
> >> Shouldn't this be
> >> 
> >> >#ifdef  BOOT_HD
> >> >        maj = (drive&0x80 ? 1 : 2);             /* a bad first bet */
> >> >#else   
> >> >        maj = (drive&0x80 ? 0 : 2);             /* another bad first bet */
> >> >#endif  
> >> 
> >> ?
> >NO, I had it correct..
> >major 0 if off a floppy and major 1 if not..
> 
> The above gives major 0 if off a hard disk and major 1 if off a floppy
> (the 0x80 bit is for hard disks).
> 
> >major 1 is a 'pseudo' mojor which is later changed to 2 or 4
> >depending on whether it's scsi
> 
> Actually, major 1 is later changed to 0 or 4 (2 is the floppy major).
> 
> Bruce
>