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Date:      Sun, 7 Apr 1996 05:31:35 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au
Cc:        bde@zeta.org.au, hardware@freebsd.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: Some solutions to disk problems.... I think.
Message-ID:  <199604061931.FAA07446@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>> The low and high words of the 'wdc' flags are implicitly exposed
>> per-drive 'wd' flags.

>I don't think so. It appears that there are 16 bits per controller
>(exposed) and then 8 bits per drive (stored in a different struct and
>unexposed). They're shifted and OR'ed together within the driver, but they
>seem to go into a local variable that's not preserved.

That's in the visual config.  The local variable is initialized to 0
and isn't passed on to the driver and isn't preserved.  The command
line config works.

Bruce



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