[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) writes: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 10:59:21AM -0800, Toshikazu Aiyama, Ph.D. wrote: >> Thank you for your advice. I know it's a lost cause. And SATA >> behaves more like SCSI. >> But I like two thing about IDE incomparison to SCSI. >> 1) It can have up to 63 partitions. SCSI device is allowed only >> 15 partitions. I need to adapt to LVM, I know. >> 2) No change of device name: If you connect to hdf, it is hdf >> regardless of you installed hde. If your SCSI device detection >> is in different order, then suddenly sdc is your sda. It's a >> kind of a relative world. And it's hard to know sometimes where >> you are! >> >> But it has decided upstream somewhere, I simply need to adapt to >> it. I really appreciate your advice, but I want to mention my >> lament. > > Yeah linux is unfortunately one of the few unixes that does NOT have > device names that map directly to a scsi bus,id,lun of the device. A > real shame and very odd given how ide is handled. Of course I think > with devfs is did have such devices for scsi, although I don't know if > udev does.
You can configure it that way. > On the other hand having sda be the first found disk is very handy for > booting from software raid1 if a drive fails. It probably wouldn't be > to hard to work with even if it didn't though. Use LABEL= or UUID=. Much better than hardcoding a device. > Len Sorensen MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]