From: Brad Boyer <flar@allandria.com>
To: Joshua Juran <jjuran@gmail.com>
Cc: Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
Laurent Vivier <laurent@lvivier.info>,
Linux/m68k <linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: I'm back on linux-m68k
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 18:05:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081109020516.GA22235@cynthia.pants.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E6F5E51C-FCEC-4DCD-85EC-6BD1FFE1088F@gmail.com>
On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 08:14:01AM -0800, Joshua Juran wrote:
> Solution: Pretend it's all one bus and give everything a unique SCSI
> ID. Or, just don't 'upstage' the boot disks (with a device of the
> same ID on a lower-numbered bus).
>
> (Bad news if you were hoping to have eight or more different startup
> disks...)
The classic MacOS doesn't track bus numbers internally anyway. It's
just a fundamental issue with the SCSI manager implementation that
Apple used. It only knows about device IDs. Since the ROM includes
chunks of the MacOS to do its own work, the limitation carries over
for the boot sequence.
Brad Boyer
flar@allandria.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-09 2:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-15 9:38 I'm back on linux-m68k Joshua Juran
2008-10-15 14:20 ` Finn Thain
2008-10-15 19:24 ` Tony Mantler
2008-10-15 23:05 ` Laurent Vivier
2008-10-16 0:44 ` Finn Thain
2008-10-16 6:05 ` Laurent Vivier
2008-10-16 6:42 ` Finn Thain
2008-10-16 9:44 ` Joshua Juran
2008-11-03 11:40 ` Joshua Juran
2008-11-03 12:01 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-11-03 19:47 ` Brad Boyer
2008-11-03 21:15 ` Michael Schmitz
2008-11-03 22:37 ` Brad Boyer
2008-11-04 7:25 ` Michael Schmitz
2008-11-04 17:59 ` Brad Boyer
2008-11-04 8:05 ` Joshua Juran
2008-11-04 18:37 ` Riccardo
2008-11-08 9:00 ` Joshua Juran
2008-11-08 13:12 ` Finn Thain
2008-11-08 16:14 ` Joshua Juran
2008-11-09 2:05 ` Brad Boyer [this message]
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