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  • Bug#265303: The DAC960 driver uses strange device names

    From Anton Zinoviev@1:229/2 to All on Thu Aug 12 17:40:10 2004
    From: [email protected]

    Package: kernel

    The debian installer is unable to modify disks on a machine with Mylex Acceleraid 170 RAID controller (DAC960 controller). This is because of
    the unusual device file scheme used by the driver with devfs file
    system: the first logical disk is /dev/rd/c0d0 and the partitions are /dev/rd/c0d0p1, /dev/rd/c0d0p2, etc.

    Please use the usual for devfs naming scheme: ../disc, ../part1,
    ../part2, and so on.

    Anton Zinoviev




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  • From Christoph Hellwig@1:229/2 to Anton Zinoviev on Fri Aug 13 00:10:08 2004
    From: [email protected]

    tags +wontfix
    thanks

    On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 06:21:29PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
    Package: kernel

    The debian installer is unable to modify disks on a machine with Mylex Acceleraid 170 RAID controller (DAC960 controller). This is because of
    the unusual device file scheme used by the driver with devfs file
    system: the first logical disk is /dev/rd/c0d0 and the partitions are /dev/rd/c0d0p1, /dev/rd/c0d0p2, etc.

    Please use the usual for devfs naming scheme: ../disc, ../part1,
    ../part2, and so on.

    We won't modify upstream names. There's a bunch of controllers that use
    this style of names, and it'll remain so until devfs will be phased out
    not too long in the future.



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  • From Anton Zinoviev@1:229/2 to Christoph Hellwig on Fri Aug 13 10:30:11 2004
    From: [email protected]

    On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 11:52:20PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

    We won't modify upstream names. There's a bunch of controllers that use
    this style of names, and it'll remain so until devfs will be phased out
    not too long in the future.

    Is somewhere a list of all such controllers and the devices they use?

    Anton Zinoviev




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  • From Christoph Hellwig@1:229/2 to Anton Zinoviev on Fri Aug 13 15:50:07 2004
    From: [email protected]

    On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 10:14:22AM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
    On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 11:52:20PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

    We won't modify upstream names. There's a bunch of controllers that use this style of names, and it'll remain so until devfs will be phased out
    not too long in the future.

    Is somewhere a list of all such controllers and the devices they use?

    Not really, you'd have to check the source. But if you want my general
    advice stay as far away from devfs as possible. It's buggy and has been declared obsolte for a reason.


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