Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:46:40 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Eric Masson <emss@free.fr> Cc: "Svein Skogen \(List Mail Account\)" <svein-listmail@d80.iso100.no>, Mailing List FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD RELENG_7 scsi and usb, usb disks take precedence Message-ID: <20081016164640.GG99270@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <86hc7cr47q.fsf@srvbsdnanssv.interne.kisoft-services.com> References: <48F72A5D.7000708@d80.iso100.no> <863aiw91th.fsf@srvbsdnanssv.interne.kisoft-services.com> <48F73B8C.8090402@d80.iso100.no> <86hc7cr47q.fsf@srvbsdnanssv.interne.kisoft-services.com>
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In the last episode (Oct 16), Eric Masson said: > "Svein Skogen (List Mail Account)" <svein-listmail@d80.iso100.no> writes: > > With all due respect, if sysinstall isn't able to write those labels, > > this is hardly the solution to the problem... ;) > > Sysinstall, even if it has proven to be useful, is outdated in many > respects, it doesn't cope really well with GEOM or ZFS for example. > > Using GEOM labels ensure that fstab will always be consistent, so > *this is* a solution. > > Now, you can try to patch the kernel to make it probe devices in a > predefined & sorted order, but I guess it will be much more difficult > ;) No patching needed. You can wire down the unit number of your scsi bus and drive with boot hints as described in the scsi(4) manpage. Wire the adaptec card down as scbus0, and wire the device at scbus0.0 down as da0. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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