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Date:      Fri, 13 May 2011 09:07:37 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Thomas Krause <freebsd-stable@chef-ingenieur.de>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: setting usb disc to da1
Message-ID:  <34458417-0D7A-493E-8C52-F3095000D764@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <4DCC5358.4050705@chef-ingenieur.de>
References:  <4DCC5358.4050705@chef-ingenieur.de>

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On 13/05/2011, at 7:08, Thomas Krause wrote:
> I've plugged a USB disc to a FreeBSD System and it's dedected as da1:
>=20
> da1: <Samsung G3 Station > Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
>=20
> But when rebooting the machine, it becomes da0 and I cannot boot the
> system. What's the trick to set the USB disc to da1 permanent?

You can, to some degree, wire the device with..
hint.scbus.0.at=3D"umass-sim0"
hint.da0.at=3D"scbus0"

However I would recommend using GPT IDs, UFS IDs or GEOM labels in fstab =
so the underlying device name is irrelevant.

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