RE: Ordering of SCSI hosts

Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Tue, 27 Apr 1999 22:43:14 +1000


BROWN Nick writes:
> Yessss please. I have SCSI disks 1 and 2 (for reasons too
> unpleasant to go into here), and if I add a drive at ID 0, they
> screw up.

The devfs patch solves SCSI device and host ordering issues:
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/kernel-patches.html

> Sad to say, Windoze NT can handle this, because it writes drive IDs
> on the disk.

If you mean volume labelling, Linux also supports that. At least, it
does for ext2fs.

Regards,

Richard....

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