From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Jun 4 18:51: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 647DE37B405 for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 18:50:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f5520SL06826; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 19:00:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200106050200.f5520SL06826@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: John Polstra , alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCSI devices settling and illegal request In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 04 Jun 2001 21:07:54 EDT." <15132.12522.204808.968943@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 19:00:28 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > The only cards I've seen that give a hoot what hose they're on are > > > NCR/Sym cards. I suppose video cards would need to be on the zeroth > > > hose too.. > > > > OK, I give up. What's a "hose"? > > > > John > > Modern server-class alphas (such as DS20, xp1000, AS4100, AS4000, > AS1200, etc) may have totally separate PCI buses, with separate IO and > memory spaces. Like a normal bus, each of these can have ppbs to > child busses, etc. We call each collection of buses a hose. This > terminology comes from the SRM console. Just FWIW, you will see this in the PC world as well at some point; Intel call them "channels" (personally, I think "hose" is a much cooler name). -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message