Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices

[Joerg Schilling]

>From davidsen@xxxxxxx  Thu Aug 12 23:08:49 2004

>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).

Install Solaris and try to replug a USB writer - you will see the same
address as before.

>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.

Being forced to base on a weak grounding does not make the layers above
bad if they only don't work because of the bad grounding.


Jörg

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