On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Oliver Rauch wrote: >Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: >> Are they really relevant any more? Even the oldest box I could find >> (SuSE system from 1997, kernel 2.0.3x) had only /dev/sg0...7 and no >> /dev/sga etc. I remember that some systems had symlinks sga --> sg0 >> but how old are the real sga devices? Newer then /proc/scsi/scsi? > >I am not sure about that. Has anyone a system that uses /dev/sga and >does not have /dev/sg0 ?
Not anymore. But afaict, Slackware had only the /dev/sga variant until april 1999 (i.e. changed in slackware 4.0 or so?). Nowadays it has a dual set of device files... -- Erik I. Bolsø | email: <knan at mo.himolde.no> The UNIX philosophy basically involves giving you enough rope to hang yourself. And then a couple of feet more, just to be sure.
