Re: sid installation to SATA disk
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 10:59:21AM -0800, Toshikazu Aiyama, Ph.D. wrote:
> Thank you for your advice. I know it's a lost cause. And SATA
> behaves more like SCSI.
> But I like two thing about IDE incomparison to SCSI.
> 1) It can have up to 63 partitions. SCSI device is allowed only
> 15 partitions. I need to adapt to LVM, I know.
> 2) No change of device name: If you connect to hdf, it is hdf
> regardless of you installed hde. If your SCSI device detection
> is in different order, then suddenly sdc is your sda. It's a
> kind of a relative world. And it's hard to know sometimes where
> you are!
>
> But it has decided upstream somewhere, I simply need to adapt to
> it. I really appreciate your advice, but I want to mention my
> lament.
Yeah linux is unfortunately one of the few unixes that does NOT have
device names that map directly to a scsi bus,id,lun of the device. A
real shame and very odd given how ide is handled. Of course I think
with devfs is did have such devices for scsi, although I don't know if
udev does.
On the other hand having sda be the first found disk is very handy for
booting from software raid1 if a drive fails. It probably wouldn't be
to hard to work with even if it didn't though.
Len Sorensen
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