Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: /dev/sd* | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Thu, 10 Aug 2006 02:44:51 +0100 |
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Ar Iau, 2006-08-10 am 00:18 +0200, ysgrifennodd Adrian Bunk: > > USB storage is real SCSI. > Real SCSI for a developer, for a user it's USB.
Define SCSI ?
> And things become even more confusing considering that the drive might > show up as /dev/sda or /dev/uba depending on the driver used.
Windows people seem to cope ok with C: being IDE and E: being SCSI ;)
> I'm more concerned about the kernel<->userspace interface.
Thats a naming policy matter, udev.
> But I'm still not getting the point why the /dev/sd* namespace has to be > used.
Because the block layer approach to major/minor numbers means everything using sd (ie everything scsi disk protocol) gets the same device naming scheme.
Alan
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