> In article <linux.kernel.Pine.LNX.3.95.990817090722.13436A-100000@chaos.analogic.com>,
> Richard B. Johnson <root@chaos.analogic.com> wrote:
> >On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Dan Hollis wrote:
>
> >> <QUOTE>
> >> Kernel Panic: Couldnt mount /dev/sda1 on root fs, perhaps you forgot to
> >> compile in scsi support?
> >> </QUOTE>
>
> >Big strings mean big kernels. Not too good. The kernel doesn't
> >know, and *** must not know *** about 'dev/sda1'.
>
> Too late, I'm afraid.
>
> The de facto standard names are already known to the kernel (cf:
> init/main.c::name_to_kdev_t(), just for an example) and it is
> somewhat silly to have this one place spit out a magic code after
> the kernel has just finished telling you (for example)
>
> sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
> sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 28
> sda : extended sense code = 2
> sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
> Partition check:
> sda:scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
> unable to read partition table
> hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
>
>
> ____
> david parsons \bi/ Not that this code snippet shows any great
> \/ coherence in error messages.
>
Yep. And it shows you why it's not correct! The SCSI disk devices
are not named hda: hda1, hda3, etc., although sda, at the present time,
does correspond to 8:0.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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