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Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 11:02:32 +0000
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU/pc and scsi disks
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From: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
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To: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
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Laurent Vivier wrote:
> Paul Brook wrote:
> > On Thursday 01 March 2007 17:26, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> As I'm a newcomer, I don't know the story about qemu/pc and scsi disks, but
> >> I propose a little patch to make SCSI disks visible. 
> > 
> > See previous discussion about how the disk options need to be fixed properly.
> 
> Sorry, I didn't find it, but now I've found it.
> 
> > Apart from anything else your patch completely ignores non-x86 targets.
> 
> This patch was just to validate my approach... and it seems bad :-P
> 
> > There's also no reason to limit to 7 disks, and we should support scsi 
> > cdroms.
> 
> The reason for 7 is the number of available id on the scsi bus.

For wide scsi it is 15.

> Of course, we
> could manage several bus. To add cdroms support, we can add parameters "-scd0",
> "-scd1", ...

This gets unwieldy quickly.


Thiemo