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From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Udev-124, USB tape drive
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:05:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1215763552.4197.12.camel@linux.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48757C12.7020201@mib-infotech.co.nz>

On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 11:36 +1200, John Huttley wrote:
> Ok, attached is my 60-persistent-storage-tape.rules
> 
> adding |nst*[0-9]  seems to have fixed the issue.
> 
> my tape/by-id/  looks like
> 
> HP-C7438A-4855310710385844 -> ../../st4
> HP-C7438A-4855310710385844-nst -> ../../nst4
> HP-Ultrium_1-SCSI-HU84H06998 -> ../../st3
> HP-Ultrium_1-SCSI-HU84H06998-nst -> ../../nst3
> HP-Ultrium_2-SCSI-HUL3K02633 -> ../../st2
> HP-Ultrium_2-SCSI-HUL3K02633-nst -> ../../nst2
> QUANTUM-DLT8000-PXB23P0605 -> ../../st1
> QUANTUM-DLT8000-PXB23P0605-nst -> ../../nst1
> QUANTUM-DLT8000-PXB23P0632 -> ../../st0
> QUANTUM-DLT8000-PXB23P0632-nst -> ../../nst0
> STK-L80-LLC02205205 ->../../sg1
> 
> 
> which in my opinion is a huge improvement, since I can see which drive 
> is which and the serial number matches up with the serial number shown 
> by tapeinfo.
> 
> I think that should be the standard.

Thanks! I've added the nst* matches. We currently prefix all links with
the bus, to keep the id's unique. I left that in for now, we better
should not break _all_ currently used links. :) Why are you using
ID_SERIAL_SHORT? scsi_id already does all the needed logic to produce a
unique id, right?

> The USB drive (C7438A) is now consistent between st and nst, however the
> serial number is HU107108XD  not  4855310710385844.

It's the USB serial number from the USB device. I guess that's fine.

> I have no idea how to fix that since the rules now use things like bsg 
> and usb_id %p which  are entirely undocumented.

/dev/bsg/* is just like sg*, only with a newer protocol version. sg will
eventually go away, and in the longer term we will fix bsg to show up
before the tape/disk/... nodes, so the WAIT_FOR rule can go.

usb_id just tries to extract persistent data from the USB device
strings/descriptors. It's a bit magic, but does basically just what the
command line output shows:
  /lib/udev/usb_id --export /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb4/4-1/4-1:1.0/input/input10/mouse1
  ID_VENDOR=Logitech
  ID_MODEL=USB-PS.2_Optical_Mouse
  ID_REVISION 00
  ID_SERIAL=Logitech_USB-PS.2_Optical_Mouse
  ID_TYPE=hid
  ID_BUS=usb

  /lib/udev/usb_id --export /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/host7/target7:0:0/7:0:0:0/block/sdb
  ID_VENDOR=SAMSUNG
  ID_MODEL=HM160HI
  ID_REVISIONì02
  ID_SERIAL=SAMSUNG_HM160HI_SAMSUNG_HMS10UJD0PA02660-0:0
  ID_SERIAL_SHORT=SAMSUNG_HMS10UJD0PA02660
  ID_TYPE=disk
  ID_INSTANCE=0:0
  ID_BUS=usb

Kay


      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-11  8:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-10  3:03 Udev-124, USB tape drive John Huttley
2008-07-10 22:46 ` Kay Sievers
2008-07-10 23:36 ` John Huttley
2008-07-11  8:05 ` Kay Sievers [this message]

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