On Fri, Aug 21, 1998 at 09:32:58AM -0700, Parag Patel wrote:
> 
> >I'm also not sure if reading a label on a volume is the best mechanism 
> for
> >identifying it. But that's a different issue.
> 
> As an aside, Macs don't care about SCSI ID very much since they name 
> each volume (mountable paritition) on a drive.  The equivalent of root, 
> the System Folder, is selected from the volume marked as the "Startup 
> Disk" in a control panel.  SCSI IDs can be shuffled around without 
> screwing it up (althouth not without shutting it off and rebooting).  
> Volumes can be renamed at any time, so internally it maintains pointers 
> to volume tables which then contain the names and pointers to SCSI IDs 
> and other whatnot.

Same for Amigas.

I really would like the wedge proposal to be implemented, and RDB-labeled
disks being mounted by partition name.

	-is