Re: SCSI ID wars [was: USB Sandisk SDDR-31 problems in 2.4.9 -

Nelson Mok (nmok@cse.Buffalo.EDU)
Fri, 11 Jan 2002 18:03:26 -0500 (EST)


On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Timothy Covell wrote:

> On Thursday 10 January 2002 15:35, Matthew Dharm wrote:
> > The "stall at shutdown" is a known problem. I'm testing a patch now... as
> > soon as I see my last patchset incorporated into the kernels, I'll send it
> > out for inclusion.
> >
> > As for the USB device "hiding" your SCSI device... how odd. I've never
> > heard of that before.
> >
> > Matt
>
> Does it hide your SCSI device or just shift the SCSI IDs such that
> /dev/scd0 becomes /dev/scd1?
>
>
> And that brings up a question concerning whether there is a defined
> way of assigning SCSI IDs. I'm assume that it's "every driver for
> itself".
>
>
> ---
> timothy.covell@ashavan.org.

Well after having this happen to me again, I checked to see whether the
SCSI IDs were shifted or not... from what I gather, they haven't because
the CD-ROM is assigned ID 3 and the CD-R is assigned ID 4 and I am still
able to mount a CD as /dev/scd1 if the disc was placed in the CD-R drive.

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