Re: 2.3 wish. Scsi ID's

Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Sat, 29 May 1999 07:42:34 +1000

Wakko Warner writes:
> I feel it would be nice to do this, but I don't know how it would effect the
> kernel.. Add in support to access a scsi disk by bus/id/lun/partition.
>
> /dev/sda1 looks nice, but it's not practical expecially if you have a few
> hard drives in the machine (say 3, id0 id1 and id2), and you remove the one
> that's on id1. Now sdc is sdb. The cdrom's aren't as bad since most people
> don't mount them at bootup.

This problem is solved with devfs:
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/kernel-patches.html

Regards,

Richard....

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