Date: 03/17/2003 22:23:11
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 12:39:35AM -0500, der Mouse wrote:
>
> My memory, fuzzy though it may be, says that the (id<<3)+lun formula
> was used in the Sun-3 world, whereas with the Sun-4 they decided to
> stop bothering with LUNs. (Though it occurs to me as I write this that
> they could have switched to (lun<<3)+id for all I know; it would be not
> much more code, would preserve the capability, and would gain the
> benefit they presumably wanted of having the ID readily visible in the
> common case of LUN=0.)
>
Ah - this may be where I am muddying things. I have only dealt with
suns starting with sun4c (SLC/ELC/IPC) - anything before that is not
something I have dealt with.
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Brett Lymn