Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 04:20:55 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us> Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI question... Message-ID: <199812251220.EAA05215@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 Dec 1998 10:22:30 EST." <19981224102230.T365@acheron.middleboro.ma.us>
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For some fairly obvious reasons, this should have gone to scsi@freebsd.org. > My company is trying to support FreeBSD, and it's been left to me to figure > out a couple things without having a FreeBSD box handy. Eek. That can be rough. > 1) Our box is a multi-LUN SCSI device. Are multiple LUNs supported in FreeBSD > by default? (A complication is that I don't know what version of FreeBSD our > client runs. I've been told -current, but I doubt that. I'm guessing 2.0.x. > I will find out for sure on Monday, but getting a jump over the weekend would > be cool.) Yes. > 2) Can I access multiple LUNs through individual device files? If so, can I > assume that the kernel will pop up messages saying what files have devices > attached? Presuming the "box" is something that is supported by the FreeBSD drivers, sure. You may have to add a quirk entry (and rebuild the kernel) to get it to probe all the LUs. > 3) Should I have the client do "/dev/MAKEDEV all" before rebooting with the > device attached? That would do what I want under NetBSD, but I'm not quite > sure about FreeBSD. You don't need to do it *before* booting, and again it depends on the release of FreeBSD and the nature of your device. Generally it's best to explicitly make the devices in question. > I'll probably have a FreeBSD box at both work and home before too long, but > at the moment I'm sort of groping in the dark to figure some of this out. > I want to know as much as possible before leading my client through an install > on Monday. Yikes, talk about being dropped in the deep end. 8( -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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