[sclug] Idle curiosity about device naming limits (slightly OT)

[James Wyper]

--- Will Dickson <wrd at glaurung.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> It strikes me that, with the current explosion of nifty mass-storage 
> systems which all use SCSI and / or SCSI emulation (SATA RAIDs, USB 
> mass-storage devices etc.) one could end up with /dev/sd[a-z] all
> being 
> occupied. Does anybody happen to know what the next device to be
> plugged 
> in would be called?
> 
> Will.

A fire risk?

On a related note, if I have two USB mass-storage devices, is it
possible to configure things so that device A is always recognised as
/dev/sda1 and device B as /dev/sdb1 without having to always plug in
device A before device B?

Thanks,
James.


		
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