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9. Generic

This information gives information that is specific to the generic scsi driver.

9.1 Supported Hardware

The Generic SCSI device driver provides an interface for sending SCSI commands to all SCSI devices - disks, tapes, CDROMs, media changer robots, etc.

Everything electrically compatible with your SCSI board should work.

9.2 Common Problems

None :-).

9.3 Device Files

SCSI generic devices use character major 21. Due to constraints imposed by Linux's use of a 16 bit dev_t, minor numbers are dynamically assigned from 0, one per device, with

/dev/sg0 

corresponding to the lowest numerical target/lun on the first SCSI board.


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