Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Apr 1997 19:30:38 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Steven N. Hirsch" <> | Subject | Re: SCSI disk devices |
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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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