Re: SCSI device assignation?

Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Fri, 5 Mar 1999 07:46:25 +1100

Gregoire Favre writes:
> Hello,
>
> I have a SCSI HD (id 1), a CD-ROM (id 2), cd CD-Writer (id 3), an external
> Syquest EZ drive (id 4) and I have just bought an U2W HD (usine id 6).
>
> I have installed linux (stampede, but doesn't matter here...) on the U2W
> disk, with the EZ power off, I haven't modified the id of the U2W drive,
> because I wanted to have the choice for latter adding SCSI stuff (at id 0,
> 5,6:changing the U2W to 8 or more) and for my problem, that do not change
> anything for now...
>
> I was thinking I could access my EZ under linux with echo "add single...
> > /proc/scsi/scsi...
>
> I was fault (I imagined that the EZ would become sdc...)!
>
> What is the standard way for mixing together those id?
>
> I have to say that I prefer HP-UX way of naming device (with the id in the
> name of the device) (and the restriction that maybe there is a usefull way
> under linux to do it?).

Grab the devfs patch:
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/kernel-patches.html

This should do what you want.

Regards,

Richard....

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