From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 15 20:46:56 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F25F416A41F for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 20:46:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dmehler26@woh.rr.com) Received: from ms-smtp-01-eri0.ohiordc.rr.com (ms-smtp-01-smtplb.ohiordc.rr.com [65.24.5.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5CB343D49 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 20:46:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dmehler26@woh.rr.com) Received: from satellite (cpe-65-31-41-46.woh.res.rr.com [65.31.41.46]) by ms-smtp-01-eri0.ohiordc.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with SMTP id j5FKkpWY005726 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:46:52 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <000501c571eb$5bfb5b60$0200a8c0@satellite> From: "dave" To: Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:46:51 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Subject: usb2 external drive gets different designations X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: dave List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 20:46:56 -0000 Hello, I've got a working usb2 external IDE hard drive running on a 5.4-stable box. My problem is sometimes when i connect it it is given a designation of da0 while other times it is given a designation of da1 or da2. I'd like to create a fstab entry for this drive so that when it is connected it is mounted and when disconnected it is unmounted cleanly. I was wondering if this was possible or if not if there was a way of giving it da0 or da1 everytime the drive was connected? Thanks. Dave.