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Date:      Wed, 17 Mar 1999 20:45:32 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        obrien@NUXI.com
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to add a new bootdevice to the new boot code ??? 
Message-ID:  <43435.921699932@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Mar 1999 11:39:18 PST." <19990317113918.B39105@relay.nuxi.com> 

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In message <19990317113918.B39105@relay.nuxi.com>, "David O'Brien" writes:
>> >People are asking for:
>> >
>> >wd0, ...
>> >da0, ...
>> >
>> >Ie, join ad and da namespaces.
>> 
>> If you want to join anything, go directly to "disk%d" instead.
>
>But that is not the "deal" that was presented to us when we had to endure
>the gratuitous sd->da name change.  The whole justification was a single
>device name for disks (and what ever else is direct access).

The fact that Justin promised that "ATA ***Could***" use CAM, didn't
seem to imply to me that it would, unless somebody wrote code for it.

That didn't happen.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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