Rafael Herrera wrote:
Device names for scsi devices are as follows:
CD-ROMs: /dev/srX Disks: /dev/scdX
where X stands for 0, 1, ...
0 (zero) corresponds to the first device of a given type found in the scsi channel.
I don't think that's right, since one of my devices (a magneto-optical disk) shows up on /dev/sda. So the question remains: if I hadn't known that, how could I have discovered it?
The output of dmsg is only part of the actual messages that appeared at boot. Your best source of info is /proc/scsi/scsi. For example mine looks like this:
# cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: IBM-PCCO Model: DGHS18Y !# Rev: 0351 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST39173LW Rev: 6246 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
etc. I have no problem getting information about the hardware devices and locations. It's the /dev information that's still mysterious. Paul