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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] ide: Adds "model=s" option, allowing the use
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] ide: Adds "model=s" option, allowing the user to override the default disk model name "QEMU HARDDISK" |
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Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:08:48 +0100 |
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Il 12/03/2012 16:27, Floris Bos / Maxnet ha scritto:
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>> 1. IDE only, scsi-disk is missing.
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> Correct.
> IDE support is easy.
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> Adding SCSI support is more complicated, because "model" and "serial"
> are not the only factors that can make up a /dev/disk/by-id link
> Could be a combination of 3 fields: vendor, model and serial.
> But could also be based on another unique ascii or binary identifier
> provided by the drive through Vital Product Data page 83h.
I am going to add customization of VPD page 83h soonish (though only
limited to another ASCII identifier), and Dmitry Fleytman told me
offlist that he's going to add vendor/model support too.
That said, I agree with the other comments from Markus.
Paolo