Ivan Voras wrote: > On 02/11/10 23:29, Charles Owens wrote: >> Hello, >> >> We've been doing some work with mpt(4) and mptutil(8). We noticed that >> in VMware (both Workstation and ESX) the SCSI controller is showing up >> as mpt0... so it seemed only natural to probe it with mptutil. For > > Which is probably useless as you can't exactly diagnose a virtual drive :)
Well, not quite useless: consider the possibility of a customized CD with install script that can be run on a number of platforms. As the installer runs it notes the presence of /dev/mpt0 and then uses "mptutil show adapter" and other commands to determine type of controller, state of volumes (if appropriate), etc. A perfectly reasonable use-case, in my opinion. But, in general, VMware is an important enough platform that I suggest that mptutil should made to play nice. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
