* Increase IDE Drive letters beyond dev/hdz to dev/hdaa, similar to scsi drive lettering
@ 2005-04-30 11:04 Tyler
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From: Tyler @ 2005-04-30 11:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Is there a simple way to patch the ide driver to support drive letters
beyond dev/hdz, to roll over to hdaa,hdab, etc? The scsi drive
lettering currently does this.. going sda to sdz, then sdaa,sdab,sdac, etc.
The reason I need this is for using 4 x Highpoint 454 (hpt374 chipset, 8
drives each card) PATA cards in a software md raid, but of course it
runs out of drive letters, and starts using funny characters such as
dev/hd{ , and dev/hd\207 or something..
Beyond that, is there a way to merge hpt36x/hpt374 chipset support into
libata, since libata uses scsi emulation with scsi drive lettering? It
seems that is a goal of libata anyways, to support older PATA chipsets
as well.
And, yet one more option, would be to choose in the kernel config,
whether you want the hpt374 driver to use ide, or scsi emulation..
currently, the tainted proprietary driver directly from highpoint uses
scsi emulation.. surely it could merged as an option for the driver
thats included in the kernel?
Regards,
Tyler Guthrie.
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