Subject: Re: Why have disktab entries for SCSI at all?
To: Kenneth Stailey <kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov>
From: Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com <michaelv@HeadCandy.com>
List: current-users
Date: 12/10/1994 01:17:04
>The following three lines are repeat without permission from /etc/disktab
>on a NeXTSTEP 3.2 box:
>
># NOTE: The Builddisk application and /usr/etc/disk now are able to
># automatically determine SCSI disk geometry and capacity for SCSI disks
># that support the MODE SENSE command -- no disktab entry is required.

Well, disktabs kinda make it handy to let the OS know where the root,
swap, and usr partitions live.  Somehow I don't think the MODE SENSE
command is going to tell it that.  ;-)

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