Bug#265303: The DAC960 driver uses strange device names
tags +wontfix
thanks
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 06:21:29PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> Package: kernel
>
> The debian installer is unable to modify disks on a machine with Mylex
> Acceleraid 170 RAID controller (DAC960 controller). This is because of
> the unusual device file scheme used by the driver with devfs file
> system: the first logical disk is /dev/rd/c0d0 and the partitions are
> /dev/rd/c0d0p1, /dev/rd/c0d0p2, etc.
>
> Please use the usual for devfs naming scheme: ../disc, ../part1,
> ../part2, and so on.
We won't modify upstream names. There's a bunch of controllers that use
this style of names, and it'll remain so until devfs will be phased out
not too long in the future.
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