From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Aug 12 10:18:56 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id KAA03264 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 12 Aug 1995 10:18:56 -0700 Received: from penzance.econ.yale.edu (penzance.econ.yale.edu [130.132.32.100]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA03256 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 1995 10:18:54 -0700 Date: Sat, 12 Aug 1995 13:20:20 -0400 (EDT) From: -Vince- To: "Rodney W. Grimes" cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, john@zyqad.co.uk, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade to my machine In-Reply-To: <199508121027.DAA05713@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hardware-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 12 Aug 1995, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > [Stuff about striped disks] > > > > > > > I hope mine is too... > > > > Now my question is how do you figure out what the mounting point > > is for each drive? > > You don't mount each drive, you mount a virtual device called a concatted > disk that has been told that these raw partitions are what create the > logical partition. > > On an Auspex this is done with an /etc file, with 4.4BSD lite it is > done in the kernel config file, with AAC's stripe driver it is done > with an ioctl right now, but will use the /etc file very similiar > to an Auspex once the user land commands are written for it. Hmmm okay but I notice like many systems still have mounting points like they have a whole disk or partition just for /var/mail but can you give a example how the above is done and can FreeBSD handle 9 GIG SCSI drives? Cheers, -Vince- vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu - GUS Mailing Lists Admin UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering - UC Berkeley Fall '95 SysAdmin bigbang.HIP.Berkeley.EDU - Running FreeBSD, Real UN*X for Free! Chabot Observatory & Science Center