sdX? Shozbot.

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 04:00:09PM -0800, Net Llama wrote:
>Mike, what pain in the ass are you referring to here??

My guess would be the assignment of device names.  Generally they're
assigned in order of SCSI-ID and host adapter.  The first SCSI hard drive
found is /dev/sda1, second, /dev/sda2, etc.  The time this can be a severe
pain is if one has installed a primary hard drive using the default
settings from the vendor (often SCSI-ID=6 since they supply two jumpers),
and a new drive is installed with a lower ID.  It helps to have a
systematic plan when setting up SCSI devices.  Being an old SCO hand, I
tend to put the tape no ID=2 and CD on ID=5 because that was their standard
starting on my first Tandy 4000 386-16 running Xenix.

Bill
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