Re: OT] Joerg Schilling flames Linux on his Blog

[Matthias Andree]

On Thu, 26 May 2005, Kyle Moffett wrote:

> I don't use the three-number made-up SCSI-over-USB IDs that Joerg was
> complaining about being unavailable.  I have mine set up based on the
> UUID of the  burner.  I'm sorry for being unclear, but my objection is
> to his desire to expose  the SCSI IDs to userspace as the primary
> naming scheme, when said SCSI IDs are  frequently just made up by the
> kernel for USB devices, etc.

Given that I know the SCSI IDs of every single device I install, am not
using SCAM, I don't object to using SCSI IDs, unfortunately, SCSI CD or
DVD writers are rare and costly - I'd prefer them over ATAPI every day
since I take one PCI device to connect like half a dozen narrow SCSI
devices. ATAPI is so wasteful. And I have bought SCSI for as long as
somewhat up-to-date devices were available.

Things get interesting though with ATAPI, ATAPICAM, ide-scsi, ide-cd and
all sorts of interfaces since probing various busses is something that
requires user intervention or trial & error to list _all_ devices in
different buses, and drives have unlogical bus numbers (seen these on
FreeBSD), or more generally, when cdrecord tries to coerce a device
numbering scheme on devices that are not enumerated, or devices that are
hotplug with device numbers changing with every plug-in action, or
whatever.

-- 
Matthias Andree
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