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"Long live the Amiga." Or something."Long live the Amiga." Or something.Posted Jan 8, 2004 15:28 UTC (Thu) by kena (subscriber, #2735)Parent article: The future of device numbers Back in the day of AmigaDOS, device numbering was done in two different ways: you could access the primary floppy device (fd0:), or -- and the OS was just as happy -- you could access the _label_ of the floppy, eg. "cool_games:". That way, you could just plug your floppy into any given drive, and access it, without needing to know the name of the device. While this would clearly require some serious rethinking in Linux-land, it might be something to keep in mind as, at the least, a way others have dealt with similar situations in the past.
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"Long live the Amiga." Or something. Posted Jan 12, 2004 20:47 UTC (Mon) by elanthis (subscriber, #6227) [Link] You will absolutely love udev then. That's exactly what it lets you do.
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