On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 12:33:51PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > Marc Singer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The numbering is still strange as this device is *still* numbered > > hd2 even though there are no other IDE hard drives in the machine. > > Is it possible that this device is a master on the second IDE channel? > If your mobo has on-board IDE with two connectors ...
It is. > [rant coming up] > I think that the current naming system is confusing and incoherent. > Why are ide disks on a fixed position, while scsi disks are always > in a contiguous block sd0 to sdN? According to the documentation, such is not the case. > > I strongly think the hurd should adopt a sane & simple convention and > stick to that. Something like that comes to mind: > > hc0d1s3 would be slice (dos partition) 3 on disk 1 (slave) on ide > channel 0 (primary). sc2i5l1s0 would be slice 0 of a device having id > 5 and lun 1 on SCSI chain/channel 2. lun can be left out for those > devices without it. Leaving out the slice means the whole device. > > Today, sticking to mach tradition is the most straight-forward > solution. But what if we use a different �kernel with yet another > bizarre scheme in the future? > > Just my meagre .02 Euro > -- > Robbe
