On Mon, 1 Sep 1997, Allen Briggs wrote:

> > i don't know if this question is port-mac68k specific, but why does NetBSD
> > use it's own driver scheme, rather than Linux's, where the number in the
> > device driver would correspond to the SCSI ID?
> 
> It's not port-mac68k specific.  You can, if you build your own kernel,
> have the SCSI IDs hardwired.
> 
> The BSD method is more flexible with multiple scsi busses, though.  How
> would linux number with two busses?  Or with a device that has multiple
> disks on multiple luns of one target (like some old ESDI interfaces did,
> I think)?

What version of Linux are you referring to?  It's my understanding that
linux for x86 does it the same way NetBSD does it.  In fact, there was
discussion on the MkLinux list, and AFAIK, MkLinux DR3 will use the same
scheme.  The only difference is, of course, that the letter and number
serve opposite purposes and are backwards....


David

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