Hmmm. No package called `scsidev' exists in Debian (potato|woody). Pointer?
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > On Mon, 11 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > The problem I have here is that the 'appropriate device' is not guarenteed > > to stay constant with respect to the SCSI bus and ID, the way IDE devices > > are for example. On my system (I believe this is actually the default) > > scd devices are group audio, perm 0660, and my cdripper account is in the > > audio group. > > > > Currently, I have two hard drives and two cdrom drives in this machine. > > The hard drives are at IDs 0 and 1, and the cdrom drives are at IDs 5 and > > 6. > > > > ID: generic: > > 0 sg0 > > 1 sg1 > > 5 sg2 > > 6 sg3 > > > > Now I want to connect an external hard drive to my machine, so I have more > > storage space for my music collection. I set this drive to ID 3. > > > > ID: generic: > > 0 sg0 > > 1 sg1 > > 3 sg2 > > 5 sg3 > > 6 sg4 > > > > Notice that now my external hard drive has access by audio group through > > the generic device, and my second cdrom drive is no longer accessable by > > the audio group. > > To circumvent this problem, you could use the scsidev package to create > the appropriate nodes in /dev/scsi/ and set permissions on them. These > permissions will be preserved on reboots. The major and minor device > numbers will be adjusted if necessary at every reboot. > "/dev/scsi/sgh24-6c00c0i3l0" will always point at LUN 0 of the device with > ID 3 on bus 0 of the SYM5c8xx scsi-adapter at memory address 6c000. You do > need to run scsidev again if you add scsi devices while Linux is running, > though. > > Remco > -- > qn195-66-31-144: 7:55pm up 7 days, 20:09, 11 users, load average: 1.02, > 1.21, 1.40 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
