Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Aug 2004 00:44:56 +0200 | From | Marc Ballarin <> | Subject | Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices |
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On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:11:45 -0400 Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote:
> > 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. >
That's exactly what udev allows you to do (among a lot of other things).
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