[Gllug] Linux on a box with mixed discs

[Andrew Halliwell]

And verily, didst Russell Howe announce to the hordes:
> 
> Andrew Halliwell wrote:
> 
> > Ah, but USBstorage devices usually appear as SCSI... So, in theory, if you
> > use a CFreader or certain digital cameras or mp3 players... You will be
> > swapping your SCSI devices around a lot.
> > 
> 
> The way IDE development seems to be going, it's only a matter of time 
> before all IDE devices appear as SCSI too. This is already the case for 
> SATA.
> 
> Bye bye predictable hd(x) naming, hello unpredictable sd(x) naming.

SuSE 9.1 appears to have a solution to this.
There's a daemon they use at bootup that hardlocks a specific scsi device to
a specific /dev special device.

Seems quite an obvious move, I'm surprised no-one thought of that before.

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