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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.cps.udayton.edu!news.engr.udayton.edu!blackbird.afit.af.mil!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Disk question Date: 19 Jul 1996 08:08:39 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4snfq7$35r@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31ea0005.19199613@pandora.digitaladvantage.net> <4sddb3$fne@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4slnfu$f2@anorak.coverform.lan> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) wrote: > Talking about scsi(8), How do I create /dev/scsi/super ? I take it > it's supposed to be a device, but it's not mentioned in /dev/MAKEDEV. You should ask the author, Peter Dufault. ;) I think the super SCSI device never made it out of his development sources into the official tree. > It's just occured to me that /dev/sd?.ctl may be what the man page > means - is this correct (I'm on a laptop - no SCSI at the moment). The difference is that /dev/r*.ctl does primarily handle a single SCSI device which must have been successfully probed. This creates a chicken-and-egg problem if you want to scsi -r on a machine where no SCSI device was present at boot time. (scsi -r has a load of other problems however. If it happens to work for you, it's okay, but it hangs the bus in quite many cases.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)