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SubjectRe: SCSI disk devices


On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Dave Barr wrote:

> In message <m0wMcJ1-0008zEC@seneca>, Harald Milz writes:
> >There is one more point to that. We are eventually going to have an SSA
> >device driver, and SSA tends to be used in large server installs. Each
> >disk is presented to the OS as a single SCSI disk ... so I think we need
> >a major change in disk numbering, not just 16 more devices by one more
> >major number. 16 bit minors (and majors, for that matter) would be the
> >cleanest solution IMHO. That's what commercial Unixes tend do offer.
>
> If we do that, we _definately_ have to adopt something like the
> Solaris /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3 scheme. It gets really tiring trying to out-
> guess what the kernel is going to name a new disk when it's put online.

Eric Youngdale wrote a nice utility which does exactly this! Try scsidev.
I couldn't live without it. Not sure why it never caught on with any of
the distributions..

Steve



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