>From vojtech@ucw.cz Tue Jul 16 13:59:27 2002
>> It would help, if somebody would correct the current SCSI addressng scheme used
>> in Linux. Linux currently uses something called BUS/channel/target/lun.
>> This does not reflect reality.
>>
>> What Linux calls a SCSI bus is definitely not a SCSI bus but a SCSI HBA card.
>> What Linux calls a channel really is one of possibly more SCSI busses going
>> off one of the SCSI HBA cards. It makes sense to just count SCSI busses.
>Well, no. It doesn't. Because the numbers will change if you add a card
>(even at runtime - hotplugging USB SCSI is something real happening
>today. And that'd be a very bad thing.
It hey change, then this is a Linux kernel problem. On Solaris they don't
change because Solaris manages /etc/path_to_inst
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