From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: "ata73" == "sd 72" ? Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:22:27 -0400 Message-ID: <48083E23.3040505@pobox.com> References: <4807EB94.80104@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:37505 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752757AbYDRGWd (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:22:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4807EB94.80104@rtr.ca> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Lord Cc: Tejun Heo , IDE/ATA development list 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