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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
	IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: "ata73" == "sd 72" ?
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:22:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48083E23.3040505@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4807EB94.80104@rtr.ca>

Mark Lord wrote:
> While working on sata_mv today, I noticed something weird in the syslog.
> The messages from libata show "ata73" for the port with my drives (pmp),
> but the messages from SCSI (sd) show "sd 72" for those same drives.
> 
> One would really think that these two numbers should agree,
> not be off by one.  I wonder why they differ (or why they are
> almost the same) ?

Just historical reasons, one counts from zero and the other does not...

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-18  6:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-18  0:30 "ata73" == "sd 72" ? Mark Lord
2008-04-18  6:22 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2008-04-18  8:13   ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-04-24  3:38     ` Tejun Heo

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