From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 29 12:30:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1196016A4CE for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 12:30:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4352E43D2D for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 12:30:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iATCUbQU098457; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 23:00:39 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Michael Grant Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 23:00:34 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <20041129101033.GH98559@grant.org> <200411292133.25842.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20041129122059.GI98559@grant.org> In-Reply-To: <20041129122059.GI98559@grant.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart157391199.L90xfymite"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200411292300.35019.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.2 () IN_REP_TO,MIME_LONG_LINE_QP,PGP_SIGNATURE_2,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bios disk numbers and device names X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 12:30:45 -0000 --nextPart157391199.L90xfymite Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 22:51, Michael Grant wrote: > > What sort of device in particular? > > Specifically, ata and scsi. This is a big problem for me. Once I > lost a controller and it was a nightmare trying to get the machine to > boot after moving the disks to the other controller. Another time I > added a disk and again it was a nightmare. You can wire disks down in SCSI, not sure about ATA. If a controller died then you will still be in trouble because the wiring=20 wouldn't be correct either :( Adding a disk is where wiring works OK. > Has anyone thought about this problem? Is there some spare space in > the label that could be used for a device name that, if set, could > be used in place of (or an alias for) a name like da0? I don't think this is feasible given the way things work at the moment :( That said if you run 5.x devfs makes this sort of thing MUCH less painful..= =20 You just boot single user, edit /etc/fstab, and go. =2D-=20 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 --nextPart157391199.L90xfymite Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBqxZq5ZPcIHs/zowRAhqtAJ0dXj816HGcirGmrfa92UDZrnh9lQCeOM9a FvOoQKOMXgmqppl0cyQ61dc= =cW6s -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart157391199.L90xfymite--