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authorDouglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>2012-01-19 14:09:40 +0000
committerDouglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>2012-01-19 14:09:40 +0000
commitbccea1a58087cf1658490cdcf20a1ca569884331 (patch)
treec6cf8238cb44ac6e299683005730d80c821eb8df /README.freebsd
parent363a8dae3a75c2c4479b7219a51d968c1592a749 (diff)
downloadsg3_utils-bccea1a58087cf1658490cdcf20a1ca569884331.tar.gz
sg_get_lba_status: adjust Parameter Data Length response field calculation per sbc3r25.pdf
git-svn-id: https://svn.bingwo.ca/repos/sg3_utils/trunk@435 6180dd3e-e324-4e3e-922d-17de1ae2f315
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@@ -79,6 +79,21 @@ In FreeBSD disks have block names like '/dev/da0' with a corresponding
pass-through device name like '/dev/pass0'. Use this command
"camcontrol devlist" to see that SCSI devices available.
+FreeBSD installation
+====================
+The traditional './configure ; make ; make install' sequence from the
+top level of the unpacked tarball will work on FreeBSD. But the man pages
+will be placed under the /usr/local/share/man directory which unfortunately
+is not on the standard manpath. One solution is to add this path by
+creating a file with a name like local_share.conf in the
+/usr/local/etc/man.d/ directory and placing this line in it:
+ MANPATH /usr/local/share/man
+
+FreeBSD 9.0 has a "ports" entry for sg3_utils under the
+/usr/ports/sysutils directory. It points to version 1.28 of sg3_utils
+which is now a bit dated. It could be used as a template to point
+to more recent versions.
+
kFreeBSD
========
sg3_utils can be built into a Debian package for kFreeBSD using the
@@ -113,10 +128,10 @@ DFLTPHYS(65536). Still a problem in FreeBSD 8.1 . Due to CAM overhead the
largest power of 2 that can fit through with one command is 32768 bytes (32
KB).
-FreeBSD 8.1 is the most recent version of FreeBSD tested with these
+FreeBSD 9.0 is the most recent version of FreeBSD tested with these
utilities.
Doug Gilbert
-21st June 2011
+17th January 2012