Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)

[Joerg Schilling]

Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It's shorter than /dev/c0t0d0s0? Well, I think it's because people think 
> in terms of connectors (my drive is IDE therefore it must be hdc) rather 
> than protocol (my drive does ATAPI therefore it must be 
> /dev/scsi/c0t0d0s0).

Is there any reason why the people with small PCs should dominate the 
people with big machines?

If you use /dev/hd*, you loose control after you add more than ~ 6-10 disks.

The systematical attempt is easy to remember even with a big amount of 
external hardware.

Jörg

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