From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 4 13:46:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mb-20-100.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 083DC37B503 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 13:46:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA09416 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 16:46:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailsrv2.mitre.org (mailsrv2.mitre.org [129.83.221.17]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA13019 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 16:46:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mitre.org ([128.29.145.140]) by mailsrv2.mitre.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.1) with ESMTP id G1XB1500.A58; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 16:46:17 -0400 Message-ID: <39DB9703.2B946DC3@mitre.org> Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 16:45:55 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en]C-20000818M (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: vladimir@math.uic.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: scsi device numbering References: <20001004195754.24561.qmail@math.uic.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message