Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 14:43:03 -0800 (PST) From: julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer) To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: terry@cs.weber.edu, wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: More serial console stuff... Message-ID: <m0rVS2p-0003wtC@TFS.COM> In-Reply-To: <199501201806.FAA00443@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jan 21, 95 05:06:19 am
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> > >> part = 0; > >> unit = (drive & 0x7F); > > I always make this change too. > > >> This automagically sets the unit to 0 or 1 accordingly. I've seen this > >> bandied about on the newsgroups, but I've often wondered why it never > >> became official. My guess is that this causes other problems that I'm > >> not aware of (which are undoubtedly related to SCSI disks, which I don't I haven't actually looked, but the one that may fail is the case of hd(1,a) when a SCSI disk is co-configured with an IDE disk. in this case it needs to pass a 1 to the bios to boot, but a 0 to the kernel (it's sd0 after all isn't it). If that still works, then sure.. make the change..
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