Subject: Re: Drive Numbering...
To: Frank Dana <danaf@cs.rpi.edu>
From: Dave Burgess <burgess@cynjut.neonramp.com>
List: current-users
Date: 11/15/1995 19:34:52
>
> With Shakespearian flourish, Chris G Demetriou writes:
> > > Could we puh-leeeeze get the device numbering set up so that it at least
> > > sorta reflects physical ID numbers? Or, at the very least, doesn't change
> > > if you add/remove anywhere but the end of the ID chain?
> >
> > No, something for you to fix in your config files. This was one of
> > the first annoyances fixed in NetBSD's SCSI code, before any port
> > other than the i386 port even existed.
> [...]
>
> Ah, cool. I hadn't realized you could set it up like that. Is this in
> the FAQ? Actually, perhaps it should be in some "Other Setup" section of
> 1.1's install document. Something for people who finally have a working
> system to consider doing. ('So You Want to Build a Kernel?') 8)
>
> Can you do the numbering any way you please? Say I had two controllers.
> could I number as:
>
> sd10 at scsibus0 target 0 lun ?
> sd11 at scsibus0 target 1 lun ?
> [...]
> sd20 at scsibus1 target 0 lun ?
> sd21 at scsibus1 target 1 lun ?
> [...]
>
Yup, it is now. You should see it out in about 10 days.
--
Dave Burgess (The man of a thousand E-Mail addresses)
386bsd FAQ Maintainer / SysAdmin for the NetBSD system in my spare bedroom
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