Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 10:28:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 10:28:20 -0500 Received: from t2.redhat.com ([199.183.24.243]:58357 "HELO executor.cambridge.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 10:28:00 -0500 Message-ID: <3BE8017E.1BFF5E2D@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 15:27:58 +0000 From: Arjan van de Ven Reply-To: arjanv@redhat.com Organization: Red Hat, Inc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9-7smp i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Mylex/Compaq RAID controller placement in config In-Reply-To:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > > > Because they are ? > > > > They dont provide scsi as the native interface (nor do some of the others > > but thats a seperate saga) > > I know it might seem silly, but as to make things clearer for most > users/admins, wouldn't it be better to just call them SCSI controllers, as > they all indeed connect SCSI drives to the host? They're not SCSI _controllers_. They happen to like scsi drivers, but there's nothing scsi about the controller. and admins would expect all controllers from the "SCSI Controllers" menu to show up as /dev/sda etc, which these don't. > --- > MCSE, MCNE, CLS, LCA Maybe this explains it ;) - 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/