[3466] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Name assignation of scsi devices
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
Fri Mar 6 08:25:58 1998
From: Andrzej Krzysztofowicz <ankry@green.mif.pg.gda.pl>
To: leroy@meg.fr (Mr LEROY christophe)
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 11:29:42 +0100 (CET)
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <mxMail.9835144126@meg.meg.fr> from "Mr LEROY christophe" at Mar 6, 98 03:17:17 am
Hi,
>
> I've tried devfs, it's exactly what I need.
> There is just one probleme:
> When my system boot, there is no ZIP disc into zip drive so only c0b0t6u0
> appears in /devfs/sd
> So when I insert a ZIP into the drive and tries to mount /devfs/sd/c0b0t6u0p4 ,
> mount tells me that this special device does not exist.
>
> When i do mount /dev/sdb /mnt, kernel detects the ZIP and it's partition, and
> mount it.
> After that, I get c0b0t6u0p4 in /devfs/sd
>
> Is there a way to force kernel to detect ZIP partition before executing mount ?
>
I met the same problem and have just finished workaround for it.
You can try my devfs patch, which allows you (among some other
modifications) to assign specyfic host numbers to apropriat drivers using
"scsihosts=<host1>:<host2>:..." kernel or scsi_mod module parameter.
This patch is against 2.1.86 + devfs-patch-v19 and is available as
ftp://rudy.mif.pg.gda.pl/pub/People/ankry/linux-patches/devfs/patch-current-devfs
I tried it with ppa + aha1542 and it worked OK.
It has been send to devfs Author, but still is not included into devfs
(perhaps as no newer version of devfs-patch has been released ...)
Notice, that this patch is, of course, useless if you don't use devfs.
with regards
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