Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Eric Youngdale" <> | Date | Tue, 2 Jul 1996 10:28:06 -0400 | Subject | Re: SCSI device numbering (was: Re: Ideas for v2.1 |
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>Oh, btw, we should not need to put the device type into the device >number: there is no reason why CD/disk/tape should show up in the device >number, because it's not something that _should_ be seen (the driver just >has to keep track of what kind of device a certain ID/Lun combination is, >the same way we already keep track of sizes).
Not completely true. The scsi-generics interface is a secondary interface to all of the physical devices that let users do direct scsi programming of a device. For disks and cdroms there isn't a problem, since the generics interface uses character devices, but with tapes there would be an ambiguity that would somehow need to be resolved.
-Eric
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