Robert Bihlmeyer schrieb: > > 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 ...
sorry, didn't come taht far in the thread... > 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. I think, additional naming by serial Id or label would be useful as they dont't change when you add/remove disks/partitions like in Linux-fstab Patrick
