Actually, I didn't write the lines above.
> Me> Umm... the IDE subsystem is already like this. We have
> Me> hda - 1st channel, master
> Me> hdb - 1st channel, slave
> Me> hdc - 2nd channel, master
> Me> hdd - 2nd channel, slave
> Me> ...
> Me>
> Me> Then you follow those with a number indicating the paritition. The
> Me> difference between current SCSI practice and IDE is this: If you take out
> Me> hdb, hdc remains hdc. But if you remove sdb, sdc becomes sdb.
> RG>
> RG> That's right. And it's a pain.
>
> Huha? In what way? I like being able to disconnect my cdrom (which was hdb,
> due to cable length), which was causing inablity to boot (its ICs appear to
> be fried) withought moving my /usr partition (hdc2). The naming of the
> partitons is somwhat annoying, but ahvell.
I mean that the IDE way is better. With SCSI, I have:
ID0 -> sda (has /, /data)
ID1 -> sdb (removable)
ID2 -> sdc (has swap, /home)
I then remove ID1, so I get:
ID0 -> sda
ID2 -> sdb
so ID2 has been renamed! If ID1 is a removable drive, I have to edit
/etc/fstab each and every time. It's a royal pain.
Regards,
Richard....