[ILUG] SCSI devices

[John P. Looney (Kate)]

On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 12:00:32PM +0100, Paul Jakma mentioned:
> On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Caolan McNamara wrote:
> 
> > I could have sworn that this suggestion was mooted occasionally
> > on linux kernel and that someone was working on it as a serious
> > proposition. I might scan the archives so see if Im imagining it
> > 
> 
> it works here:
> 
> [paulj at rossi uml]$ ls -l /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target{0,1}/lun0
> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0:
> total 0
> brw-------    1 root     root       3,   0 Jan  1  1970 disc
> brw-------    1 root     root       3,   1 Jan  1  1970 part1
> brw-------    1 root     root       3,  10 Jan  1  1970 part10
> brw-------    1 root     root       3,  11 Jan  1  1970 part11
> brw-------    1 root     root       3,  12 Jan  1  1970 part12
> brw-------    1 root     root       3,   5 Jan  1  1970 part5
> brw-------    1 root     root       3,   6 Jan  1  1970 part6
> brw-------    1 root     root       3,   7 Jan  1  1970 part7
> brw-------    1 root     root       3,   8 Jan  1  1970 part8
> brw-------    1 root     root       3,   9 Jan  1  1970 part9

 Er, and you delete a partition, and everything stops working..

 I'd more meant that if you had /dev/discs/labels/ or something, so that
you could map an id to a text string, and reference that later. Not sure
how it would work on drives you can't write one of those handy UUID
strings to though.

Kate

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