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Date:      Wed, 04 Oct 2000 16:45:55 -0400
From:      "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org>
To:        vladimir@math.uic.edu
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: scsi device numbering
Message-ID:  <39DB9703.2B946DC3@mitre.org>
References:  <20001004195754.24561.qmail@math.uic.edu>

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vladimir@math.uic.edu wrote:
> 
> Dear -BSD users,
> 
> suppose I have 3 scsi disks installed with SCSI ID's 0,1,2.
> They are accessible as da0, da1 and da2.
> If I remove the disk with SCSI ID = 1,  the system renumbers
> the rest of the disks, i.e.  a  former da2 becomes da1.
> Is there any way to hard-code devices, so that if I remove
> the disk,  device numbers would not change (i.e. the disk
> that has been da2 will remain da2)?

FreeBSD calls this "wiring down" devices, and it's in the handbook:
http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/hw-storage.html

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