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<h1>Re: Two SCSI bus question...</h1>
<b>Rogier Wolff</b> (<a href="mailto:R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl"><i>R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl</i></a>)<br>
<i>Wed, 10 Dec 1997 09:29:24 +0100 (MET)</i>
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Christoph Doerbeck wrote:<br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; &gt; The topic of having multiple SCSI buses has surfaced before, but</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; &gt; my curiousity is how the /dev/(scanner) is assigned to a device.</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; &gt; SCSI disks are simple, they're assigned in the order that they</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; &gt; are detected (unless configured otherwise in the kernel). But,</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; &gt; my scanner device seems to waffle around depending on whether or</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; &gt; not some other devices are turned on/off at boot time. Any ideas???</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; All detected devices are assigned a raw-device in the order in which they </i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; are detected. Scanning the busses goes dev-id first, then bus-id.</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; Thus you first get all devices on the first bus, then all on the second,</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; each in order of the SCSI IDs.</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; Thus your scanner wanders whenever a device that is below it in that ordering</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; scheme is there or not.</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; But, let's say I have disk 1 (id=0), disk 2 (id=1), tape drive (id=2) and disk</i><br>
<i>&gt; 3 (id =3). Isn't disk 3 always /dev/sdc regardless if the tape drive powered</i><br>
<i>&gt; up? Let's say disk 4 is on controller 2 as id=0. Now /dev/sdd is always</i><br>
<i>&gt; /dev/sdd unless one of the previous disks is not present at power up, </i><br>
<i>&gt; regardless</i><br>
<i>&gt; of the state of the tape drive.</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; Shouldn't the scanner device behave the same way???? :-(</i><br>
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Actually it does, however the "sdX" devices are just "all the scsi<br>
disks". The "sgX" devices are "all scsi devices". Thus if you want<br>
your scanner to remain in the same place, make sure that no devices<br>
with a power switch are before it.<br>
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Roger.<br>
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