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- Subject: Re: SCSI Autodetect? Static table? (Was: ST01/02 and Syquest 5110)
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- From: jesse@mars.slu.edu
- Date: 25 Jan 93 12:33:12 CST
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- Gentlemen, My two cents worth:
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- I dislike the idea of auto-renumbering the drives when one is unpluged.
- Another flavor of Unix does this. What happened is that I went on vacation and
- my assistant removed drive 1. This automapped drives 2 and 3 to 1 and 2. But
- he didnt change fstab. This resulted in fsck checking the WRONG partition d
- instead of h and corrupting the disk.
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- Apollo and Evans & Sutherland (sp?) have both developed another method to
- handle the multiple controller/disk/partition problems. What E&S does is call
- their disks isc0d0p11 for Internal Scsi Controller 0 Disk 0 Partition 11. This
- will allow multiple controllers, disks and partitions. Same for tapes. Then
- what I have done is create a link between isc0t0 to exabyte, or whatever. I
- can then use a meaningfull name like /dev/exabyte to access a device.
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- This approch eliminates the problems with drives changing names, and allows you
- to assign your own name to the disk.
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- Jesse
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