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Re: Adding SCSI Iomega ZIP drive to existing Linux system...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kurt Garloff)
Sat Feb 5 14:22:59 2000

Date:   Sat, 5 Feb 2000 20:20:28 +0100
From: Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de>
To: Jeff Sutherland <jsutherland@accelent.com>
Cc: "'linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu'" <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
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On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 11:55:52AM -0500, Jeff Sutherland wrote:
> The bios automatically (via plug-and-pray) assigns id #4 to the fixed disk
> normally.  Because the ZIP drive can only be assigned to 5 or 6, I tried 6

I'd suggest to disable SCAM completely. It only causes trouble.
If you have to live with it, I'd suggest to use the alias feature of scsidev
(http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/scsidev/) to get a unique view of your
disks independent of the IDs being used.

Regards,
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Kurt Garloff  <garloff@suse.de>                          Eindhoven, NL
GPG key: See mail header, key servers         Linux kernel development
SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG                               SCSI, Security

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