Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 7 Aug 2004 02:01:25 +0200 (CEST) | From | Joerg Schilling <> | Subject | Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices |
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>From: Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
>> Let me lead you to the right place to look for: >> >> The CAM interface (which is from the SCSI standards group) >> usually is implemeted in a way that applications open /dev/cam and >> later supply bus, target and lun in order to get connected >> to any device on the system that talks SCSI. >> >> Let me repeat: If you believe that this is a bad idea, give very good reasons.
>There is one: hotplug. The physical topology of buses where all the SCSI-like >devices (being it ATAPI devices, iSCSI, USB disks or other such beasts) >are connected is too complex, so every attempt to map them to the >(bus, target, lun) triplets in any sane way is destined to fail.
I see always the same answers from Linux people who don't know anyrthing than their belly button :-(
Chek Solaris to see that your statements are wrong.
Jörg
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