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From: julian@TFS.COM (Julian Elischer)
Subject: Re: NIS (yp client) support in *BSD
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References: <2jd12b$avc@ifado.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de> <MYCROFT.94Feb11095728@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 1994 02:46:44 GMT
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In article <MYCROFT.94Feb11095728@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu>,
Charles Hannum <mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>In article <2jd12b$avc@ifado.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de>
>wb@arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de () writes:
>
> [...] NetBSD-current does not support SCSI devices which are
> offline at boot time, [...]
>
>And neither does FreeBSD.
I would like to make a slight correction to this..
FreeBSD 1.0 and 386bsd Both had a rather kludgy but usable if you had
a great need, method of supporting devices that were not available
at boot time.
The new code that is in FreeBSD (and netbsd magnum, though this feature
may be broken at this time)
does support run-time reprobes of the scsi bus, and in FreeBSD
there is a program (scsi(1)) that will reprobe the scsi bus to find
any extra devices. This may be run at any time.
>
julian
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