From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 13 5:48:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from king.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de (king.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de [141.2.10.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 275EB15469 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 05:47:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marko@king.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de) Received: (from marko@localhost) by king.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.7.1) id OAA23499; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 14:45:37 +0200 (MESZ) To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Device numbering for e.g. da? Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=NIL From: Marko Schuetz Date: 13 Apr 1999 14:45:37 +0200 Message-ID: <86btgsu1se.fsf@king.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> Lines: 16 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'd like to suggest that in addition to the devices /dev/da? there should be device containing the channel, SCSI id and lun of the device. The motivation is that I had a couple of SCSI disks in a machine and / was not on the first one. When there was some disk trouble such that the first drive was no longer detected correctly, the drive with SCSI id 1 became the first drive (da0) but since /etc/fstab was not changed accordingly the system didn't finish booting, giving some message like 'could not change root to da1s1a'. If there is another solution to the problem I would be glad to learn it. One solution would be to use SCSI ids (as jumpered on the drive) in /etc/fstab. Marko To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message