> You can "wire down" any attachment. Or rather, as config(5) says, you > can wildcard any attachment: Sure, I know that. I only wasn't sure in this special case where the original attachment was at scsi*.
> If the wired down device cannot be attached its wildcard siblings will > not use that number. E.g. note that you probably never see pckbc0 > attached on an x86, b/c 0 is taken by the wired down "pckbc0 at isa?" > in the config and so you get "pckbc1 at acpi0 ..." etc on actual boot. Do I understand that correctly that if I configure scsibus0 at mpt0 scsibus1 at mpii0 scsibus* at scsi* and use that on a machine that lacks both mpt and mpii, but has mfii, then mfii0 will get scsibus2? > E.g. sparc has a GENERIC_SCSI3 config: Yes, I recall that. I started using NetBSD (1.4.x?) on ELCs and a SPARCstation 1.