Re: Linux 2.4.2ac20

[Nathan Walp <faceprint@faceprint.com>]

David Balazic wrote:
> 
> 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 )
> 
> --
> David Balazic
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SCSI adapters are given host numbers in a random order?  Even with no
hardware changes?  Does this make less than sense to anyone else?  Every
kernel EVER up till now has had the real scsi cards (in some particular
order) then ide-scsi.  Have I just been lucky???

Nathan