Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 22:55:54 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hardware Message-ID: <19971108225554.XL31799@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199711080520.XAA16195@nospam.hiwaay.net>; from dkelly@HiWAAY.net on Nov 7, 1997 23:20:43 -0600 References: <19971108001615.TR41338@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199711080520.XAA16195@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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As dkelly@HiWAAY.net wrote: > While memory is cheap, its very common for > an IDE drive to have only 128k, while thats a very low end SCSI drive. > I don't shop for IDE drives, so I don't know if any have more than > 128k. 512k or 1M isn't unusual for SCSI. Well, you're right. If the industry had switched to SCSI 2 or 3 years ago, we would be faced with SCSI drives as cheap as IDE drives are now, but as crappy too. So, the general advise ``Buy SCSI, and you're safe'' would no longer be true then. Hmm, thinking of it this way, i'm starting to become happy that IDE still exists. ;-) > > /sbin/dmesg usually tells me what ID is still available. > > Care to remind me how to get FreeBSD to recognize a SCSI device that > wasn't there when the kernel initialized? scsi -f /dev/rsd0.ctl -r This is a chicken-and-egg problem, since you need the control device of at least one successfully probed SCSI device. Using the ssc and su pseudo-devices, you could get away by creating the /dev/scsisuper mentioned in the scsi(8) manual. These drivers are not included by default (should they?). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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