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Date:      Wed, 24 Jul 1996 23:39:34 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
To:        Darryl Okahata <darrylo@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Micropolis, again 
Message-ID:  <923.838244374@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 24 Jul 1996 14:35:33 PDT." <199607242135.AA003034134@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com> 

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In message <199607242135.AA003034134@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com>, Darryl Okahata writes:
>> In message <199607242121.AA002163303@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com>, Darryl Okahata writ
>e
>> s:
>> >> Could we have a /etc/sysconfig option to enable AWRE and ARRE on all
>> >> scsi-disks in the system ?
>> >
>> >     Are we sure that there aren't any buggy SCSI disks out there?
>> 
>> That's why I want an >option<  :-)
>
>     Oh, duh.  ;-)
>
>     If it's an option, could we make it set AWRE/ARRE only if they
>aren't already set?  It gives me the shivers to imagine an option that
>always touches the mode pages at bootup (what happens when power
>failures, bad SCSI cabling, bad termination, acts of God, etc. occur
>when setting the mode page?).

Sure, sounds fine with me.  And a little comment above it telling
why you may or may not want to :-)

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