[5914] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: WG: AW: cdrecord problems on recent Linux versions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Gooch)
Fri Feb 12 16:50:18 1999
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 08:47:32 +1100
From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au>
To: Michael Schwingen <michaels@stochastik.rwth-aachen.de>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <19990212162912.60537@saturn.stochastik.rwth-aachen.de>
[Cc list trimmed]
Michael Schwingen writes:
> On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 06:45:32AM +1100, Richard Gooch wrote:
>
> > 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).
>
> This won't help me. scsiscan registers alias names as listed in a
> config file - this means that I get /dev/scsi/usr,
> /dev/scsi/cvs_disk etc., and I can mount them - and the system still
> boots without modifications when I swap disks between multiple SCSI
> controllers, change IDs etc. - the only fixed thing is the disk
> containing the root fs for now.
OK, if you want to do that sort of thing, mounting by volume name is
the way to go. I don't think you need scsiscan for that?
Regards,
Richard....
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