Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 May 1997 07:07:56 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Steven N. Hirsch" <> | Subject | Re: SCSI disk devices |
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On Thu, 1 May 1997, Eric Youngdale wrote:
> > >> In message <m0wMcJ1-0008zEC@seneca>, Harald Milz writes: > >> > >> 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.. > > Umm, because it's a hack? Yes, it works around the problem of > device names changing as the bus configuration changes.
Well, hack or not, it's completely stable and reliable. I have it installed on all my linux boxen and it's been quite a while since I gave a thought to SCSI device remapping issues.
Steve
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