Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Feb 2006 11:50:02 +1100 | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) | From | Alexander Samad <> |
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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 > > -- > Linux Registered User 88736 | http://www.dervishd.net > http://www.pleyades.net & http://www.gotesdelluna.net > It's my PC and I'll cry if I want to... RAmen! > - > 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/ > [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |