Subject: Re: Config ...
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From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@jocelyn.rhein.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/22/1998 14:44:47
On Fri, Aug 21, 1998 at 09:32:58AM -0700, Parag Patel wrote:
>
> >I'm also not sure if reading a label on a volume is the best mechanism
> for
> >identifying it. But that's a different issue.
>
> As an aside, Macs don't care about SCSI ID very much since they name
> each volume (mountable paritition) on a drive. The equivalent of root,
> the System Folder, is selected from the volume marked as the "Startup
> Disk" in a control panel. SCSI IDs can be shuffled around without
> screwing it up (althouth not without shutting it off and rebooting).
> Volumes can be renamed at any time, so internally it maintains pointers
> to volume tables which then contain the names and pointers to SCSI IDs
> and other whatnot.
Same for Amigas.
I really would like the wedge proposal to be implemented, and RDB-labeled
disks being mounted by partition name.
-is