From: David Balazic <david.balazic@uni-mb.si>
To: faceprint@faceprint.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.2ac20
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 17:41:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AAE4DB6.8349ACBA@uni-mb.si> (raw)
Nathan Walp (faceprint@faceprint.com) wrote :
> Also, sometime between ac7 and ac18 (spring break kept me from testing
> stuff inbetween), i assume during the new aic7xxx driver merge, the
> order of detection got changed, and now the ide-scsi virtual host is
> host0, and my 29160N is host1. Is this on purpose? It messed up a
> bunch of my stuff as far as /dev and such are concerned.
SCSI adapters are enumerated randomly(*) , relying on certain numbering
will get you into trouble, sooner or later.
There is no commonly accepted solution, AFAIK.
The same thing can happent to disk enumeration ( sdb becomes sdc )
or partition enumeration ( hda6 becomes hda5 ).
* - theoreticaly no, but practicaly yes ( most of the time )
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David Balazic
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-13 16:41 David Balazic [this message]
2001-03-13 19:24 ` Linux 2.4.2ac20 Nathan Walp
2001-03-13 23:02 ` Tim Wright
2001-03-14 9:31 ` David Balazic
2001-03-14 15:12 ` Nathan Walp
2001-03-14 15:36 ` magic device renumbering was -- " John Jasen
2001-03-14 16:27 ` Tim Wright
2001-03-14 18:15 ` Greg KH
2001-03-15 1:53 ` Tim Wright
2001-03-15 2:08 ` Greg KH
2001-03-14 18:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-03-14 18:45 ` Peter Svensson
2001-03-14 19:11 ` Lars Kellogg-Stedman
2001-03-14 19:34 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-03-14 19:44 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-03-15 13:46 ` John Jasen
2001-03-14 20:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-03-16 9:11 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-03-14 19:16 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-03-14 20:08 ` John Jasen
2001-03-15 3:04 ` Stephen Degler
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-03-13 23:46 Wayne.Brown
2001-03-13 23:41 Douglas Gilbert
2001-03-13 4:36 Alan Cox
2001-03-13 6:28 ` Nathan Walp
2001-03-13 23:17 ` Michal Jaegermann
2001-03-13 23:38 ` Jeff Garzik
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