Marc Singer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The numbering is still strange as this device is *still* numbered > hd2 even though there are no other IDE hard drives in the machine.
Is it possible that this device is a master on the second IDE channel? If your mobo has on-board IDE with two connectors ... [rant coming up] I think that the current naming system is confusing and incoherent. Why are ide disks on a fixed position, while scsi disks are always in a contiguous block sd0 to sdN? I strongly think the hurd should adopt a sane & simple convention and stick to that. Something like that comes to mind: hc0d1s3 would be slice (dos partition) 3 on disk 1 (slave) on ide channel 0 (primary). sc2i5l1s0 would be slice 0 of a device having id 5 and lun 1 on SCSI chain/channel 2. lun can be left out for those devices without it. Leaving out the slice means the whole device. Today, sticking to mach tradition is the most straight-forward solution. But what if we use a different �kernel with yet another bizarre scheme in the future? Just my meagre .02 Euro -- Robbe
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