I have patches against the latest 2.4.x kernel to support what you want (I
have the same drive). The patches will make sure that the drive appears in
the /dev directory at boot time whether there is media or not, and also
support media change detection so the partition entries for the drive will
(nearly) always stay in sync with the media in the drive.
If you'd like to try these patches on your system, email me offline.
To answer your other questions, the drive names will stay the same unless
you physically rearrange the way they are attached to your IDE/ATA host
adapters. The names are associated with their physical positions, so they
won't change unless you force them to.
Personally, I have configured my system to use only "new" names and have
completely turned off compatibility names. No particular advantage, other
than my /dev directory is nice and clean now :-)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dragan Stanojevic - Nevidljivi" <invisible@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <devfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 4:49 PM
Subject: Removable media (ZIP drive)
> Hi!
>
> I'm new to this devfs thingy, and I like it so far.... but I have a IDE
> ZIP drive...
>
> If the ZIP disk is not in the drive during the boot process than the
> device files are created, but if the disk is not in the drive, there are
> no device files, and I don't know how to set up the daemon to create
> them on-the-fly...
>
> Also, will the new names of the devices stay the same or will they
> change as the daemon changes...
>
> And the last thing... Is there any point to use new names, and slowly
> transition to them in config files or should we use the old names for now?
>
> with regards,
> N.
>
>
>
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