Messages in this thread | | | From | "Dave Cinege" <> | Date | Sun, 04 May 97 23:12:43 -0500 | Subject | Re: Static naming schemes for devices/partitions (was: SCSI disk devices) |
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On Sun, 4 May 1997 22:00:36 -0400, Eric Youngdale wrote:
> >>Main problem with this - What about IDE? >> >>Those drives don't count? Any labeling scheme should be kernel based. I >>would recommend handling the scsi naming versus the labeling issue >>separately. > > They count, but with IDE you are limited to 2 disks (I believe), so >the problem just doesn't come up as much. > > The idea of a symbolic name for devices is something that scsidev does >support. It just doesn't do anything with IDE.
True....but I'm refering to names for PARTITIONS here, based on the 'label' of the partition.
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