From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 20 14:44:20 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id OAA22445 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 20 Jan 1995 14:44:20 -0800 Received: from tfs.com (mailhub.tfs.com [140.145.250.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA22435 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 1995 14:43:51 -0800 Received: by tfs.com (smail3.1.28.1) Message-Id: From: julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Subject: Re: More serial console stuff... To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 14:43:03 -0800 (PST) Cc: terry@cs.weber.edu, wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199501201806.FAA00443@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jan 21, 95 05:06:19 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 679 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > >> 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..