On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:12:28 +0000, you wrote:
Since people started messing around trying to be clever with this stupid SATA and forcing IDE drives to become SCSI devices there has been nothing but continual trouble with drives getting brain dead allocations
You're barking up the completely wrong tree. If you want to complain go to linux-ide or the general kernel development list as you won't reach anybody that could change anything here on this list. And people haven't messed around but rather tried to match hardware and software as best as they could. SATA drives have a lot in common with SCSI drives ( that's the reason why SSA (serial SCSI) controllers can handle both SSA and SATA drives), so it was rather natural to handle them as scsi devices. And for the dynamic nature of device names you also have to blame hardware. Static device handling has no place in modern dynamic hardware.
and this device by name thing is well bin fodder .
Only in your eyes. Others regard it as a welcome help to get stable device names.
get back to drive on the first interface hda second hdb ect get rid of this stupid enforced scsi rubbish if sata devices need a seperate name then sata satb satc satd makes far more sense
What do you call first interface? Motherboards normally have more then one controller onboard, at least one in the chipset and additional controllers for PATA and/or eSATA drives. Where do you start counting? And how do you want to order the loading of drivers?
this device by name thing can we please get rid of this deranged junk ,
It's neither deranged nor junk.
If devices are read in the order they are on the MB IDE1 is hda and hdb IDE2 is hdc and hdd sata1 is sata sata2 is satb ect it would all work very nicely.
Who defines which port is ide1 or sata1?
this is one of the things that is holding Linux back it is too difficult to setup and once setup it makes no sense the way drives have been named
In the beginning people said that naming devices other then by drive letter would be too difficult. It all depends on ones POV and the willingness to adapt to new ways of doing things.
I know there are certain people that are so far up their own backsides that they cant see this but there is our problem pure and simple .
As I said in the beginning, go to opensuse-offtopic if you want to rant or go to the upstreams linu devel mailing lists if you do want to talk top those that could change things. Opensuse is the completely wrong tree to bark up. Philipp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org