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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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