Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-05-16T07:26:43Z

On Tue, 15 May 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, 15 May 2001, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
> > 2 (disk domain). I have multiple spindles on multiple SCSI adapters.
>
> So? Same deal. You don't have eth0..N, you have disk0..N.
>
> What's the problem? It's _repeatable_, in that as long as you don't change
> your disks, they'll show up the same way. But the 0..N doesn't imply that
> the disks are anywhere special.

Are FireWire (and USB) disks always detected in the same order? Or does it
behave like ADB, where you never know which mouse/keyboard is which
mouse/keyboard?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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