Re: PATCH: Different SCSI ordering for WIDE SCSI chains.

Andrzej Krzysztofowicz (ankry@oberon.idk.com.pl)
Fri, 27 Nov 1998 10:12:49 +0100 (MET)

>
> Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> >
> > No it shouldn't. You have created a solution for your specific
> > problem. It would completely mess up other people's systems!
> >
>
> I disagree on this one. It is a problem for me, indeed. But I can imagine
> other people who want the same thing: the ability to connect external
> (narrow) scsi devices in a flexible way, while internally having some
> wide devices. In that case it's not MY specific problem.
>
> You're right about the fact that it's messing up existing systems that
> rely on the current SCSI order, I'm aware of that. This can be fixed
> however by changing fstab and some boot params. Afterwards the problem
> has vanished forever (except when useing older kernels). After this
> single change things are flexible however! This means: the ability to
> connect external (narrow) devices without having to change fstab every
> time you do that. It hurts once, but never again.
>
> A better alternative however might be a reverse SCSI order scanning of
> devices.
>

There is also another solution of this problem: try to use devfs patch.
With devfs devices names are defined by hardware parameters of devices
(host_nr/channel/id/lun)

Regards

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