From: "Richard Fish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] udev.rules: Two "removeable" SATA-hds...how to map
to /dev ???
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 10:28:38 -0700
> On 8/4/06, Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > [Fri Aug 04 11:38:50 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/
> > [cut]
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul 20 10:50
> > ata-Maxtor_6Y080L0_Y2CG9M5E -> ../../hde
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul 20 10:50
> > ata-Maxtor_6Y080L0_Y3J1HW3E -> ../../hdg
>
> ARGH! Thanks Etaoin, I forgot about the by-id mappings.
>
> Meino, take a look at the by-id rules in 60-persistent-storage.rules.
> It looks like you can use the ENV{ID_SERIAL} to match SATA drives by
> serial.
>
> > The strange thing is that udev obviously knows the serial number of each
> > drive (udevinfo -q all -n /dev/sda *DOES* show the device's serial
> > number), but it seems that no file under /sys contains this information
>
> It uses the /lib/udev/scsi_id program to read the information directly
> from the drive.
>
> /lib/udev/scsi_id -g -s /block/sda -d /dev/sda
>
> -Richard
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>
Hi Richard,
sorry, may be this is again a very nooby question, but...
Where is that file ("60-persistent-storage.rules") ?
"locate" doesn't locate that file on my system...
Beside that: Great hack! Sounds like a real solution!
Thanks a lot!
Keep booting !
mcc
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