Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 14:49:26 +0200 (CEST)
From: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.gmd.de>
Message-Id: <200207161249.g6GCnQZ9021743@burner.fokus.gmd.de>
To: schilling@fokus.gmd.de, vojtech@suse.cz
Cc: James.Bottomley@steeleye.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
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>From vojtech@ucw.cz Tue Jul 16 13:59:27 2002

>> It would help, if somebody would correct the current SCSI addressng scheme used 
>> in Linux. Linux currently uses something called BUS/channel/target/lun.
>> This does not reflect reality.
>> 
>> What Linux calls a SCSI bus is definitely not a SCSI bus but a SCSI HBA card.
>> What Linux calls a channel really is one of possibly more SCSI busses going
>> off one of the SCSI HBA cards. It makes sense to just count SCSI busses.

>Well, no. It doesn't. Because the numbers will change if you add a card
>(even at runtime - hotplugging USB SCSI is something real happening
>today. And that'd be a very bad thing.

It hey change, then this is a Linux kernel problem. On Solaris they don't 
change because Solaris manages /etc/path_to_inst

J?rg

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