On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> mingo writes:
> > On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Richard Gooch wrote:
>
> >> Yep, I'm inclined to agree. I think I've decided on
> >> the SCSI disc naming scheme:
> >> /dev/dsk/sd_h0c0t0u0p2
> >>
> >> The "dsk" is compatible with Solaris, IRIX and HP-UX. The "sd" is
> >> needed because /dev/dsk is going to have non-SCSI discs (IDE,
> >> floppy, MD and so on).
> >
> > hm, whats the point in half-compatibility? The sd_ stuff (and the rest)
> > will break Solaris scripts anyway i guess. Compatibility with _broken_
> > naming schemes makes only sense if it's 100%, otherwise it's not too
> > useful i guess. So why use 3-letter cryptic abbreviations, why not 'disk'
> > simply ... or do you want cdrm and flpy and tp and mgntcdsk too? ;)
>
> I agree, half-compatibility is broken. This would solve the problem:
>
> /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s2 -> ../disk/sd_h1c1t0u0p2
> /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s0 -> ../disk/scd_h1c1t1u0p0
> /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s2 -> ../disk/ide_h0c0t0u0p2
> /dev/dsk/c0t8d0s2 -> ../disk/fd_h0c0t8u0p2
Or
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s2 -> ../disk/sd/h1c1t0u0p2 ;-)
/dev/dsk/c1t1d0s0 -> ../disk/scd/h1c1t1u0p0
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s2 -> ../disk/ide/h0c0t0u0p2
/dev/dsk/c0t8d0s2 -> ../disk/fd/h0c0t8u0p2
Still something that (almost) all can sink their teeth
into, Seems to cover both worlds.
> It would be OK to just reserve /dev/dsk for future use.
> I think it is important to give floppy+ide the c0* name,
> unless Solaris/x86 has some other solution.
Tia, JimL
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