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>The Linux 2.4 SCSI subsystem HOWTO</H1
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>Douglas Gilbert</H3
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> © 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Douglas Gilbert</P
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>scsihosts change -> run mkinitrd, lk 2.4.21,22</TD
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>lk2.4.20, linuxdoc->tldp, sATA and SAS, last sector on raw devs,
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>mkinitrd, scsi_debug, 2.4.18, more ATAPI</TD
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> This document describes the SCSI subsystem as the Linux kernel
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enters the 2.4 production series.
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An external view of the SCSI subsystem is the main theme.
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Material is included to help the system administration of the
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Linux SCSI subsystem. There are also brief descriptions of
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ioctl()s and interfaces that may be relevant to those writing
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applications that use this subsystem.
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>1. <A
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>Introduction</A
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