Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 29 Nov 2001 17:17:59 -0700 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: IDE controller detection 2.4 +devfs |
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Rene Rebe writes: > I like to rereport that the IDE Controllers get strange device- > node-number in Linux-2.4 (currently vanilla 2.4.16) at least using DevFS. > > I reported (~a year ago) that when I disable the primary channel of the > on-board controller of the Asus-K7M (Irongate based) the second channel > will be host1 - no host0 can be found. > > My today's issue is our K6-2 based server with an Gigabyte Ali-Aladin5 > board. The on-board controller is host0 but the additional Promisse > TX2 Ultra100 will be host2 ??? no host1 there ... : > > server1:~ # l /dev/ide/ > total 0 > drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 . > drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 .. > drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 host0 > drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 host2
So what's the problem? It's a similar naming scheme as used for SCSI. It doesn't matter if you have something plugged into a bus, the host numbering doesn't change. This is a Feature[tm].
If you want to access your drives according to detection order, use /dev/discs instead.
Regards,
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