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 -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Systems, Inc. UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``A Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse out of the public treasury. From the moment on the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that Democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a Dictatorship.'' Professor Alexander Fraser Tytler. Date unknown. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
