On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Michael Neuffer wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Richard Gooch wrote:
> > > This allows then to stay compatible with their naming sheme but has the
> > > drawback of dropping support for LUNs. This only works properly for the
> > > special case of the SSAs since you only have disk drives in them.
> > >
> > > However I do not think that we should make the same mistake as them
> > > and cut ourselves off from supporting multi LUN devices.
> >
> > Agreed! Considering this, I'm open to alternative naming schemes, but
> > only if they preserve the information.
>
> The easiest would be to add a field so that it looks like the following:
>
> cCbBtTdDsS
>
> <C> == controller
> <B> == bus/channel on controller
> <T> == target (ID)
> <D> == LUN
> <S> == slice/partition
Nit picking here. But, I would really like to see something
that does not follow Sloaris's example. At least in the Char.s
used to describe the meanings.
cCbBdDlLpP < The next nit is that the 'l' looks like a One or an 'I'.
<C> == Controller
<B> == Bus/channel on controller
<D> == Disk/target (ID)
<L> == Lun
<P> == Partition/slice
Tia, JimL
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