Subject: Re: port-i386/507: not easy to auto-boot off 2nd drive if it's SCSI
To: None <mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
From: John Kohl <jtk@kolvir.blrc.ma.us>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 10/07/1994 21:09:53
>>>>> "CH" == Charles M Hannum <mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu> writes:

CH> The only effect this patch has is to force the unit number to 0 in
CH> openrd().  This does *not* solve any general problem, and will hose
CH> people booting off a second hard disk on the same type of controller.

Hmm, maybe I misunderstand how the hd() pseudo-device works in the boot
code.  Shouldn't hd(1,...) be the same as wd(1,xxx) where two wd disks
are installed?  Similarly with hd(1,xxx) like sd(1,xxx) where two SCSI
disks are installed?

==John