From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 29 9: 8: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B09B37B400 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 09:08:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wwweasel.geeksrus.net (wwweasel.geeksrus.net [64.8.210.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C49E43E3B for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 09:08:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alane@wwweasel.geeksrus.net) Received: from wwweasel.geeksrus.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wwweasel.geeksrus.net (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6TG7KFG001063; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 12:07:20 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from alane@wwweasel.geeksrus.net) Received: (from alane@localhost) by wwweasel.geeksrus.net (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g6TG7KDg001062; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 12:07:20 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from alane) Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 12:07:20 -0400 From: Alan E To: Jason Andresen Cc: FreeBSD Stable List Subject: Re: Are submissions to add drives to /etc/disktab welcome? Message-ID: <20020729160720.GA749@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> References: <20020728173044.GA14766@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> <3D4564A4.86BEFA38@mitre.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D4564A4.86BEFA38@mitre.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 11:52:04AM -0400, Jason Andresen wrote: >Alan E wrote: >> >> I'd like to add my Maxtor 80 and 160 gig drives. It might even be >> possible to script the add based on reading the current (synthetic) >> disktab for the numbers, and the /var/run/dmesg for the Manufacturer, >> model, and interface type (ESDI == ATAPI, SCSI). > >I don't think FreeBSD uses the disktab for HDDs. The only thing I think >disktab is used for is "stupid" devices (like floppies and zip disks) >that don't report their own geometry. Aha. So the completeness of the informational-only fields is really of no consequence. However, it would be nice to be able to give the command "disklabel ad4" and actually see the filesystem table like I can on ad6. I suspect that type=ESDI may be sufficient to make that happen. Is there any point in writing a disklabel onto a drive that has no disklabel, since the kernel can synthesize one for operational purposes? I should note that there is nothing wrong with my system whatsoever; this is just curiosity about completeness of the information presented by the disklabel command. -- AlanE KDE-FreeBSD Team To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message