Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 11:42:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 11:42:14 -0500 Received: from rcum.uni-mb.si ([164.8.2.10]:21258 "EHLO rcum.uni-mb.si") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 11:42:01 -0500 Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 17:41:26 +0100 From: David Balazic Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.2ac20 To: faceprint@faceprint.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-id: <3AAE4DB6.8349ACBA@uni-mb.si> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Nathan Walp (faceprint@faceprint.com) wrote : > Also, sometime between ac7 and ac18 (spring break kept me from testing > stuff inbetween), i assume during the new aic7xxx driver merge, the > order of detection got changed, and now the ide-scsi virtual host is > host0, and my 29160N is host1. Is this on purpose? It messed up a > bunch of my stuff as far as /dev and such are concerned. SCSI adapters are enumerated randomly(*) , relying on certain numbering will get you into trouble, sooner or later. There is no commonly accepted solution, AFAIK. The same thing can happent to disk enumeration ( sdb becomes sdc ) or partition enumeration ( hda6 becomes hda5 ). * - theoreticaly no, but practicaly yes ( most of the time ) -- David Balazic -------------- "Be excellent to each other." - Bill & Ted - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/