This will require relabelling all of one class or the other (new disklabel), or a major overhaul of the way that the root disk is found inside the kernel. IMHO, the latter is where the change needs to happen. SLICE might have made it a little easier, but searching won't actually be all that difficult. Someone want to do the work?
> > I think you are missing the point. We will not chuck the old > wd* driver until people have crashed all MFM, RLL, ESDI and !ATA > IDE drives. > > So we WANT to be able to tell the difference... > > Poul-Henning > > In message <pine.lnx.4.04.9903170447220.17718-100...@feral-gw>, Matthew Jacob > w > rites: > > > >I asked Soren just this kind of question, and he declined to answer. I > >doan geddit... > > > >On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, David O'Brien wrote: > > > >> > Boot from an ata disk on major# 30, device name "ad", plain and simple. > >> > >> Does this mean ata disks won't come under CAM/da ? > >> If not, can we PLEASE rename SCSI disks back to ``sd''? > >> > >> -- > >> -- David (obr...@nuxi.com -or- obr...@freebsd.org) > >> > >> > >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > >> > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member > p...@freebsd.org "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." > FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msm...@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msm...@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
