Le 12/12/2009 08:44, Bob S a écrit : Thin it is time to re- visit the old way of doing things /de/hda ect this /dev/disc/by ID ect is nothing but a mine field over which there is very
On Saturday 12 Dec 2009 08:25:26 jdd-gmane wrote: little control . I know there were people saying they don't have enough devices with the old system well maybe they need to completely Re- think their computing needs/System either that or we have a system whereby you can choose which system you use according to your system requirements big box too many drives hung off it "/dev/disc/by-ID " smaller system 2 or 3 drives hung off it "/dev/hdx " or if you really must insist on this darn scssi naming convention then "/dev/sdx" ect personally i can see no need for this darn silly calling an PATA or IDE device a Scsi device it just adds yet another level of un needed complication and confusion SATA devices should maybe /dev/sat but sdx humm i know this has been beaten up before but i see it as a very valid concern here we are trying to spread Linux and gain more users yet here we also go making it more and more difficult for new users to grasp if there is logic in there somewhere i cant see it . Pete . -- Powered by openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 2 (x86_64) Kernel: 2.6.30-rc6-git3-4- default KDE: 4.2.86 (KDE 4.2.86 (KDE 4.3 >= 20090514)) "release 1" 16:18 up 21 days 6:08, 3 users, load average: 0.05, 0.06, 0.02