Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 27 May 2005 01:30:21 +0200 | | From | Matthias Andree <> | | Subject | Re: OT] Joerg Schilling flames Linux on his Blog |
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On Thu, 26 May 2005, Kyle Moffett wrote:
> I don't use the three-number made-up SCSI-over-USB IDs that Joerg was > complaining about being unavailable. I have mine set up based on the > UUID of the burner. I'm sorry for being unclear, but my objection is > to his desire to expose the SCSI IDs to userspace as the primary > naming scheme, when said SCSI IDs are frequently just made up by the > kernel for USB devices, etc.
Given that I know the SCSI IDs of every single device I install, am not using SCAM, I don't object to using SCSI IDs, unfortunately, SCSI CD or DVD writers are rare and costly - I'd prefer them over ATAPI every day since I take one PCI device to connect like half a dozen narrow SCSI devices. ATAPI is so wasteful. And I have bought SCSI for as long as somewhat up-to-date devices were available.
Things get interesting though with ATAPI, ATAPICAM, ide-scsi, ide-cd and all sorts of interfaces since probing various busses is something that requires user intervention or trial & error to list _all_ devices in different buses, and drives have unlogical bus numbers (seen these on FreeBSD), or more generally, when cdrecord tries to coerce a device numbering scheme on devices that are not enumerated, or devices that are hotplug with device numbers changing with every plug-in action, or whatever. -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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