[CentOS] udev rules for /dev/sg[a-z] ?
James Pearson
james-p at moving-picture.com
Wed Aug 13 21:41:32 UTC 2008
John R Pierce wrote:
> James Pearson wrote:
>> I have a third party application that I want to run a CentOS4 box that
>> is expecting to access the generic SCSI devices through /dev/sga,
>> /dev/sgb, etc. However, the devices set up by udev are /dev/sg0,
>> /dev/sg1 etc.
>
> just curious, what sort of scsi controller is that? every CentOS 4
> system with regular SCSI (or SAS or whatever) that I've seen has created
> /dev/sda /dev/sdb, etc... only exceptions I've seen are are things
> like Compaq/HP SmartArray controllers that use /dev/cciss/c0d0
Unfortunately, a typo crept into the subject line (which I've now
changed) ...
I'm not talking about the block devices (/dev/sda etc) but the generic
SCSI devices using the sg (sg.ko) module - which have /dev entries of
/dev/sg0, /dev/sg1 etc.
James Pearson
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