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Re: SCSI generic interface addition

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Gooch)
Sun Mar 14 05:54:00 1999

Date: 	Sun, 14 Mar 1999 21:37:47 +1100
From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au>
To: "Arno A. Karner" <karner@tnss.mn.org>
Cc: Bernard Hatt <bmh@arkady.demon.co.uk>, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.990313185624.24441A-100000@technet4.t-n-i.loc>

Arno A. Karner writes:
> please no more intelagent solutions for this crap why not just
> sg.c.t.l where c = controler 0..n, t = target 0..15 or 0..f, l = lun
> 0..n where max n = 7 prob i dont want to limit it, the devices are
> created at boot time by the kernel as there found. that way when u
> have multi bus, target, lun systems every thing doesnt move, when u
> forget to turn one thinng on, or spend a half a day tring to rescue
> ur system when u lose a hard drive. i hate that crap in bills world
> too. u have a 3 disk system drive b fails, drive c becomes b, which
> doesnt have the right partitions, then ur script does mkswap on
> sdb2, poof lunches what was a nice data base. never happen u say. i
> guess u never have to use rescue disks to edit ur fstab either, to
> get the system to boot. thats when u relise how big vi is as a
> program.

http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/kernel-patches.html

You want devfs.

				Regards,

					Richard....

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