Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:57:42 +0100 | From | Helge Hafting <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] devfs API |
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Rudmer van Dijk wrote:
> > from a user point of view it is better to keep it because it could really > simplify a users life except ide should be just in discs as hdX and not as > /dev/ide/hostN/busX/targetY/lunZ/disc ...
Use /dev/discs if that's what you like. The /dev/ide/hostN... alternative is there for a reason though.
If you have, say 3 ide controllers and remove a disk from the second one then disks on the third is renumbered if they're in /dev/discs. The ones in /dev/ide/host2/... stays put.
Desktop machines may not need all that with one disk only, but it is useful for servers using IDE drives.
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