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Date:      Tue, 13 Apr 1999 08:56:49 -0400
From:      Chris Johnson <cjohnson@palomine.net>
To:        Marko Schuetz <marko@ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Device numbering for e.g. da?
Message-ID:  <19990413085649.A26880@palomine.net>
In-Reply-To: <86btgsu1se.fsf@king.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de>; from Marko Schuetz on Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 02:45:37PM %2B0200
References:  <86btgsu1se.fsf@king.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de>

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On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 02:45:37PM +0200, Marko Schuetz wrote:
> 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. 

Look for "wiring down devices" in the LINT file.

Chris


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