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SubjectRe: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices
Hello!

> But they *don't* map to consistent device names. All hot pluggable
> devices seem to map to the next available name. Looking at one of my
> utility systems, it has IDE drives mapped by Redhat with ide-scsi, real
> SCSI drives, a couple of flash card slots mapped to SCSI, and a USB
> device, all in the /dev/sdX namespace. And in the order in which they
> were detected (connected, in other words).
>
> Joerg hasn't made it any better, but it isn't great anyway. I recommend
> a script to do discovery and make symlinks somewhere to names which
> always match the same device.

Exactly. But although this is very easy with addressing by names in /dev
(just make the symlink), I do not see any sane solution in Joerg's world.

Have a nice fortnight
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Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.
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