Terence McCarthy wrote:
Is there a way to tell what /dev names have been assigned to the devices?
Paul
Either at the log-in prompt log in as root, and then before doing anything else, use the shift/page-up and page-down keys to scroll through the boot messages or use dmesg.
an axample of what you can see is:
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Vendor: PIONEER Model: DVD-ROM DVD-104 Rev: 1.18 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: IDE-CD Model: R/RW 4x4x24 Rev: Z024 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 0x/0x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Well, here's what I get in /var/log/boot.msg, which I believe shows what flies by as the system boots up: <4>PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:09.0 <6>sym53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 9, function 0 <4>sym53c8xx: setting PCI_COMMAND_PARITY...(fix-up) <6>sym53c8xx: 53c810a detected <6>sym53c810a-0: rev 0x23 on pci bus 0 device 9 function 0 irq 11 <6>sym53c810a-0: ID 7, Fast-10, Parity Checking <6>scsi0 : sym53c8xx-1.7.3a-20010304 <4> Vendor: YAMAHA Model: CRW6416S Rev: 1.0c <4> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 <4> Vendor: FUJITSU Model: M2512A Rev: 1304 <4> Type: Optical Device ANSI SCSI revision: 02 <4>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. <4>change_root: old root has d_count=3 <5>Trying to unmount old root ... okay <4>Freeing unused kernel memory: 188k freed <6>Adding Swap: 160612k swap-space (priority -1) Kernel logging (ksyslog) stopped. Kernel log daemon terminating. As you can see, it lists the hardware (Yamaha, Fujitsu) but not the Linux devices to which the hardware devices are assigned. For comparison, here's what I see with the IDE devices: <4>ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx <4>VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 <4>VP_IDE: chipset revision 16 <4>VP_IDE: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs later <4>ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx <6>VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686a (rev 22) IDE UDMA66 controller on pci00:07.1 <4> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio <4> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA <4>hda: Maxtor 53073H4, ATA DISK drive <4>hdc: ATAPI 52X CDROM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive <4>hdd: NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:252, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive In this case I can see just what Linux device each hardware device has been assigned to. It may be that on your system there's more information about the SCSI devices than there is on my system (stock kernel 2.4.4, SuSE 7.1) because you're using SCSI emulation rather than actual SCSI. Paul