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SubjectRe: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)
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On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 12:49:30PM +0100, DervishD wrote:
> Hi Joerg :)
>
> * Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> dixit:
> > Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz> wrote:
> > > > This is why the mapping engine is in the Linux adoption part of
> > > > libscg. It maps the non-stable device <-> /dev/sg* relation to a
> > > > stable b,t,l address.
> > >
> > > Nonsense. The b,t,l addresses are NOT stable (at least for transports
> >
> > Dou you like to verify that you have no clue on SCSI?
>
> My system is clueless, too! If I write a CD before plugging my
> USB storage device, my CD writer is on 0,0,0. If I plug my USB
> storage device *before* doing any access, my cdwriter is on 1,0,0.
> Pretty stable.

Had exactly the same problem with firewire and usb devices, depending on
the order of the loading of the kernel modules it all changes!

>
> But of course, I could made all of the above stable by using
> udev. But then the /dev/sg mapping will be stable, too. I can't see
> why the three random numbers are more stable than /dev/sg. By the
> way, I don't have any SCSI host adapter in my system.
>
> And please, Joerg, be more respectful when answering. It doesn't
> cost money and people will likely respect you, too.
>
> Ra?l N??ez de Arenas Coronado
>
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