Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 10:11:14 -0800 From: Sean Berry <sean@buildingonline.net> To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: 2 Firewires? Mount points swithch. Message-ID: <1080843074.406c5b425b174@mail.buildingonline.net>
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I have two firewire external hard disks attached to my FreeBSD 5.1 system. I pugged in the first one and mounted it with the following line in my fstab: # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/da0s1d /usr/files ufs rw 2 2 Everything went smooth and I was able to copy over a large amount of content to the drive. I daisy chained the second one to the first. And added the following line to fstab: # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/da1s1d /u ufs rw 2 2 That one mounted with no problem as well. I did not copy any files onto this drive, leaving it empty. So far so good. Then... I moved the machine downstairs. I did not change the daisy chain configuration of the drives, I simlply unplugged the single connector and moved the entire unit downstairs. When I booted up, both drives mounted based on my /etc/fstab, except the mount points had reversed. My drive full of content was on /u and the empty drive was on /usr/files/. I tried many different configurations, tried mounting them each seperatly, and everything else I could think of. The only thing that ended up getting it to work was actually swapping th decive names. MY QUESTION IS THIS: Now that I have it working, is there any way to guarantee which drive attaches to which mount point? How is this determined by default, is it whichever drive spins faster at the start? Thanks in advance for any help. ----------------------------------------------------------- This eMail was sent using BuildingOnline's Challenge eMail. Get 100% spam free! Call BuildingOnline at 888/496.6648.
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