Re: SCSI disk devices

Gerd Knorr (kraxel@cs.tu-berlin.de)
Thu, 1 May 1997 10:47:15 +0200

>> If we do that, we _definately_ have to adopt something like the
>> Solaris /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3 scheme. It gets really tiring trying to out-
>> guess what the kernel is going to name a new disk when it's put online.
>
>Eric Youngdale wrote a nice utility which does exactly this! Try scsidev.
>I couldn't live without it. Not sure why it never caught on with any of
>the distributions..
>

guess it is becauce it is in

tsx-11.mit.edu/ALPHA/scsi
^^^^^

Yes I know, Eric writes in the readme that it is'nt ALPHA quality, but
if you don't even read the readme becauce you avoid everything in ALPHA
directories...

Gerd

PS: How about moving/copying this to sunsite:utils/disk-management or so?

-- 
Gerd Knorr <kraxel@cs.tu-berlin.de> |  Where these funny chars come from ???
http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~kraxel/ |  [ ... ] Aha, the debug code is broken!