Ar Iau, 2006-08-10 am 00:18 +0200, ysgrifennodd Adrian Bunk: > > USB storage is real SCSI. > Real SCSI for a developer, for a user it's USB. Define SCSI ? > And things become even more confusing considering that the drive might > show up as /dev/sda or /dev/uba depending on the driver used. Windows people seem to cope ok with C: being IDE and E: being SCSI ;) > I'm more concerned about the kernel<->userspace interface. Thats a naming policy matter, udev. > But I'm still not getting the point why the /dev/sd* namespace has to be > used. Because the block layer approach to major/minor numbers means everything using sd (ie everything scsi disk protocol) gets the same device naming scheme. Alan - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
