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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!ogicse!netnews.nwnet.net!news.clark.edu!spool.mu.edu!agate!tfs.com!julian From: julian@TFS.COM (Julian Elischer) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Predefined SCSI devices in NetBSD-0.9 ? Message-ID: <CI59FE.620@tfs.com> Date: 16 Dec 93 20:11:38 GMT Article-I.D.: tfs.CI59FE.620 References: <2eme9p$jo4@mips.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de> <DERAADT.93Dec15090917@newt.fsa.ca> Sender: usenet@tfs.com Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA Lines: 21 In article <DERAADT.93Dec15090917@newt.fsa.ca>, Theo de Raadt <deraadt@fsa.ca> wrote: >In article <2eme9p$jo4@mips.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de> wb@arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de (Wilhelm B. Kloke) writes: > In NetBSD-0.9-current, I find the stuff handling predefined SCSI devices > removed from scsiconf.c. > [...] > >> But I urgently need a way to use devices which are not available at boot >> time, as they may be used on other machines. > >This is harder. I don't think this can be done with the any of the scsi >systems floating around. Actually the NetBSD 0.9 system is the only one that CAN'T do this because the "Predefined" hack will config in a device even if it is not present, and the newest scsi code can do a reprobe at run-time. The 0.9 code can do neither as it is half way between the two. julian