[ILUG] SCSI devices

[David Murphy]

Quoting <00061422124101.00825 at whizzo.loc>
by Fergal Daly <fergal at esatclear.ie>:

> On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> > Apart from rewriting a lot of the SCSI drivers, I think you're screwed. This
> > is a big part of the rationale behind DevFS which is coming with 2.4.
> 
> ...
> 
> > This is an old problem and a FAQ and I've never seen an answer, other than
> > the obvious one of changing SCSI IDs.
> 
> Thanks for that. Well at least it's in the pipeline, you'd wonder why
> it wasn't done "properly" from the very start. Another cool thing in a
> similar vein would be the ability to label hard drives (IDE or SCSI) so
> that they appear as the right thing no matter what device/ide channel
> they appear on. I wonder do these things have serial numbers on them
> that can be read at boot time?

You don't even need to do that, just support something like the
FreeBSD kernel config file has, where you can say SCSI bus 0 is the
first adaptec card in the system, da15 is target 3 on that card, and
da15 is never anything else, whether that device is on or not. You
have the facility to describe bits of the SCSI topology you never want
to change.

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