Messages in this thread | | | From | Andrzej Krzysztofowicz <> | Subject | Re: PATCH: Different SCSI ordering for WIDE SCSI chains. | Date | Fri, 27 Nov 1998 10:12:49 +0100 (MET) |
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> > Rik van Riel wrote: > > > > > No it shouldn't. You have created a solution for your specific > > problem. It would completely mess up other people's systems! > > > > I disagree on this one. It is a problem for me, indeed. But I can imagine > other people who want the same thing: the ability to connect external > (narrow) scsi devices in a flexible way, while internally having some > wide devices. In that case it's not MY specific problem. > > You're right about the fact that it's messing up existing systems that > rely on the current SCSI order, I'm aware of that. This can be fixed > however by changing fstab and some boot params. Afterwards the problem > has vanished forever (except when useing older kernels). After this > single change things are flexible however! This means: the ability to > connect external (narrow) devices without having to change fstab every > time you do that. It hurts once, but never again. > > A better alternative however might be a reverse SCSI order scanning of > devices. >
There is also another solution of this problem: try to use devfs patch. With devfs devices names are defined by hardware parameters of devices (host_nr/channel/id/lun)
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