[5880] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: WG: AW: cdrecord problems on recent Linux versions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joerg Schilling)
Thu Feb 11 15:32:52 1999
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 21:25:22 +0100 (MET)
From: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.gmd.de>
To: michaels@stochastik.rwth-aachen.de, rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
Cc: Dominik.Stadler@btk.de, bsc@fleggaard.dk,
cdwrite@lists.debian.org, dgilbert@interlog.com,
heiko_eissfeldt@z.detesystem.de, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu,
schilling@fokus.gmd.de, xiphmont@mit.edu
>From rgooch@vindaloo.atnf.CSIRO.AU Thu Feb 11 20:47:19 1999
>From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au>
>Michael Schwingen writes:
>> Locally, we use a system called scsiscan[1], which creates aliases
>> in /dev/scsi/ - in you example, I would set up the scsiscan
>> configuration so that /dev/scsi/burner_1 is automatically created as
>> a device node with the correct major/minor/type for the device,
>> whetever ID I switch it to. When using disks or other devices that
>> can be identified 100% (using contents of sector 0, plus
>> device/vendor name), this works 100% automatic. On identical devices
>> which can not be told apart, you still have to specify the IDs (like
>> in the cdrecord config file).
>Have you heard about devfs? It allows device drivers to register
>device entries which will automagically appear in /dev. It supports
>the old-style names "/dev/sg0" as well as the new-style names
>"/dev/sg/c0b0t0u0" (controller, bus, target, unit).
>It's not just for SCSI: it's for *all* devices. It's been around for a
>year now.
Interesting, this is a SYSVr4 idea (around since 1987).
How is it configured, I did not yet notice it.
Jörg
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