Jens Axboe wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 13 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > > Agreed, let's do it. hpa, can you set me up with a good range? A full
> > > major leaves room for 16 SCSI CD-ROM's with a good spread for
> > > partitions, I'm open for thoughts though.
> > >
> >
> > OK, do you have names you prefer? It looks like most distributions are
> > using /dev/scd* rahter than /dev/sr*, so I'd like to apply the same
> > hammer and get the naming scheme cleaned up.
>
> Personally I like the /dev/sr* names and /dev/sra1 looks cleaner than
> /dev/scda1 (not to mention /dev/scdd1, which is just plain confusing).
>
Are you sure you want /dev/sra1 and not /dev/sr1a or /dev/scd1a (since
the standard names right now are /dev/sr1 or /dev/scd1)?
Either way we need to be pretty adamant about consistency for this one,
we currently have a bit of a mess that even predates my being "device
registrar." These messes don't go away.
-hpa
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