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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Mylex/Compaq RAID controller placement in config
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 15:27:58 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BE8017E.1BFF5E2D@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1617xB-0000ln-00@the-village.bc.nu> <Pine.LNX.4.30.0111061612570.23908-100000@mustard.heime.net>

Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> 
> > Because they are ?
> >
> > They dont provide scsi as the native interface (nor do some of the others
> > but thats a seperate saga)
> 
> I know it might seem silly, but as to make things clearer for most
> users/admins, wouldn't it be better to just call them SCSI controllers, as
> they all indeed connect SCSI drives to the host?

They're not SCSI _controllers_. They happen to like scsi drivers, but
there's nothing 
scsi about the controller. and admins would expect all controllers from
the
"SCSI Controllers" menu to show up as /dev/sda etc, which these don't.

> ---
> MCSE, MCNE, CLS, LCA

Maybe this explains it ;)

  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-06 15:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-06 14:22 Mylex/Compaq RAID controller placement in config Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2001-11-06 15:15 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-06 15:15   ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2001-11-06 15:27     ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2001-11-06 15:35     ` Alan Cox
2001-11-06 16:00     ` Venkatesh Ramamurthy
2001-11-06 16:37     ` Ricky Beam
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-11-06 16:01 Dana Lacoste
2001-11-06 16:16 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-06 16:21 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-11-06 16:44 ` Ricky Beam
2001-11-06 20:08 Stephen Cameron

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