Subject: Re: Dynamic SCSI ids (was: A possible way of handling...)
To: None <tech-kern@NetBSD.ORG, wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
From: Kevin Van Maren <vanmaren@fast.cs.utah.edu>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/12/1997 16:08:15
FreeBSD uses this scheme:

/*
       3                   2                   1                   0
     1 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
    _________________________________________________________________
    | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
    -----------------------------------------------------------------
    |      TYPE           | SLICE   |  MAJOR?       |  UNIT   |PART |
    -----------------------------------------------------------------
    |      TYPE     |PART2| SLICE   |  MAJOR?       |  UNIT   |PART | <-soon
    -----------------------------------------------------------------

        I want 3 more part bits (taken from 'TYPE' (useless as it is) (JRE)
*/

from /usr/src/sys/sys/disklabel.h