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Date:      Wed, 25 Jan 1995 17:07:52 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, terry@cs.weber.edu
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Subject:   Re: More serial console stuff...
Message-ID:  <199501250607.RAA18320@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>For example, say I have no built in controller in the system and two SCSI
>controllers that support chaining.

>Each SCSI controller has two identical drives on it.

>The kernel is loaded via BIOS and is passed drive ID 0x82.

>On which controller does this drive reside?

>The actual residence of the drive is determined by BIOS chaining order.

>The apparent-to-the-kernel residence of the drive is dependent on the
>controller probe order.

>Now do you see what I mean?

It's what I thought I said :-).

There is no standard way to decide how the drives are mapped.  We're
not going to be able to decide without asking the user.

Bruce
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