Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 21:33:25 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bios disk numbers and device names Message-ID: <200411292133.25842.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20041129101033.GH98559@grant.org> References: <20041129101033.GH98559@grant.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 20:40, Michael Grant wrote: > Is there any way to statically assign a device name to a specific disk > so that if the BIOS renumbers the disks (for example if I move around > a controller) so that the devices always come up with the same name? The BIOS naming means nothing to freebsd (in general). I don't think there's much you can do - device names are based on the order of probing so if you change which slot on the controller it's connected to it will change device name. What sort of device in particular? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBqwH95ZPcIHs/zowRAjTPAKCc4Q33cQX0XKljHl1UyG2VN3XDlwCeKnDz yzBL7/4qU3XDiJi5IiFNHf0= =NwV+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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