Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932702AbVJCVx7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Oct 2005 17:53:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932704AbVJCVx6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Oct 2005 17:53:58 -0400 Received: from prgy-npn1.prodigy.com ([207.115.54.37]:29707 "EHLO oddball.prodigy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932702AbVJCVx6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Oct 2005 17:53:58 -0400 Message-ID: <4341A880.3060000@tmr.com> Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 17:54:08 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050729 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Lord CC: jmerkey , Nuno Silva , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux SATA S.M.A.R.T. and SLEEP? References: <433C31C8.1030901@vgertech.com> <433C2A11.9090506@utah-nac.org> <43415D14.5070909@tmr.com> <43419D0C.4010002@rtr.ca> In-Reply-To: <43419D0C.4010002@rtr.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1328 Lines: 32 Mark Lord wrote: > Bill Davidsen wrote: > >> >> It would be great to have some way to match drives with names, but >> there doesn't seem to be a single solution for PATA, SATA, SCSI and >> hotplug. Something like mounts using UUID of the filesystem, but for >> the drives. > > > I believe it would be pretty easy for userspace hotplug scripts > (udev and pals) to assign drives names by matching model/serialno, > if that's what you had in mind. That's the functionality I have in mind, the problem is finding the model and serial number info for all the various types. In some "really works" plug and play world there would be software to generate something like the UUID, and a nice table of what to call it. That doesn't quite seem to be the case yet, and it makes life a bit dificult if you need raw partitions on plugable devices. Not impossible, but PITA right now. Anyone looking for a topic for their thesis? ;-) -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me - 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/