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From: garnett@cs.utexas.edu (John William Garnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Disktab entry for WREN 4
Keywords: WREN
Message-ID: <247@mohawk.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 29 Nov 90 20:27:08 GMT
References: <7188@gaboon.UUCP> <657@storm.UUCP>
Organization: UT at Austin, Dept. of CS
Lines: 31

In article <657@storm.UUCP> bostrov@storm.UUCP (Vareck Bostrom) writes:
>In article <7188@gaboon.UUCP> danp@gaboon.UUCP (Dan Peknik) writes:
>> Does anyone happen to know of the Disktab entry for a CDC
[stuff deleted]
>ok, all you have to do is plug the disk into your scsi port and then
[stuff deleted]
>% /usr/etc/scsimodes /dev/rsd1a (or whatever your scsi drive is 
[stuff deleted]
>be /dev/rsd0a). This will spit out the info you need to make a 
>disk tab:
>	SCSI information for /dev/rsd0a
>	Drive type: MAXTOR XT-8760S
>	1024 bytes per sector
[stuff deleted]


Okay, given all this, I propose that someone who knows all about
making disktabs (and who can program of course) write a filter
which takes the output of /usr/etc/scsimodes and creates a
corresponding disktab.

something like:

/usr/etc/scsimodes /dev/rsd1a | mkdisktab > disktab.rsd1a


-- 
John Garnett
                              University of Texas at Austin
garnett@cs.utexas.edu         Department of Computer Science
                              Austin, Texas