Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
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>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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. ;-)



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19971108225554.XL31799>