Jonathan Stone drunkenly mumbled...
> 
> That depends on your kernel config file.  

joy. :)

> If you take a GENERIC-style kernel, drive numbers are allocated
> sequentially by the autoconfig code.  it would be sdNa, where N is the
> number of drives on your first controller.

i'm not so sure i like that.  being the person i am i want to be able to look
at the device name and be able to tell exactly where something is, not just
guess.

> If you use a wired-down config, you get whatever you wired down.  You
> could wire each (controller, unitnumber) pair to a specific unique
> drive number; or if you have few enough drives that you can give them
> all unique unit numbers, you can wire down a SCSI unit number to a
> drive number, regardless of which controller it's on.

ok.

> Wiring down sd? drive numbers has the nice side-effect that if a drive
> dies, or loses power, or gets moved, the device number of other drives
> doens't change, and so you don't start mounting drives on mountpoints
> at random, using partition numbners in fstab that assume the drive is
> still there.

this is (IMHO) a Bad Thing (TM)  

> Maybe we should put examples of this in a sample config file,
> or in the documentation, or something...

again, IMHO, i think we should do away with sdNa where we just add to the
end of the list.  very very very bad things will happen because of that if
i remove a drive from my first controller.  (imagine the havoc it would
create with ccd volumes!!!

-brian

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