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Date:      Thu, 23 Sep 1999 13:54:17 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>
Cc:        freebsd@osterskov.dk, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problem with Compaq SMART-2SL array controller 
Message-ID:  <199909231954.NAA43042@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 23 Sep 1999 14:46:58 CDT." <19990923144658.29434@right.PCS> 
References:  <19990923144658.29434@right.PCS>  <199909231707.MAA21789@free.pcs> <199909231926.NAA42815@harmony.village.org> 

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In message <19990923144658.29434@right.PCS> Jonathan Lemon writes:
: Yes.  The IDA driver will be happy with it's own device nodes 
: (/dev/ida....), but last time I checked, the boot/loader would 
: only understand root devices of wd() or da().  I understand that
: Soren's ad() driver has the same problem.

That's not entirely true.  I've hacked the 3.x boot loader to grok fla
devices on boot.  In 4.x I didn't need to hack anything.  It just
worked, but I might have had to specify the BIOS device number hwen
booting...

Warner


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