From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 28 14: 4: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ginger.kf7nn.com (mti-r1-aptis-4-p1995.cybertrails.com [162.42.15.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8BA915325 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 14:03:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@ginger.kf7nn.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by ginger.kf7nn.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA06049; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 14:03:50 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from root) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 14:03:50 -0700 (MST) From: vagner@WWW.TIMANDPATRICK.COM To: Donald Burr Subject: RE: zip and drive assignment Cc: questions@freebsd.org, vagner@www.timandpatrick.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I did that and when i do a config mykernel i get a warning saying da0 is configured at scbus0 witch is not fixed at a single adapter. the system has only one adaptec 1542 controller and standard ide controllers with nothing plugged into the ide controllers other than a cdrom on secondard slave. is is still ok to compile a kernel with it? On 28-Jun-99 Donald Burr wrote: > A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away (actually, it was on 28-Jun-99), > the great prophet vagner@www.timandpatrick.com once > wrote: >> if i enable the vpo driver in the kernel config >> and try to boot the zip drive becomes >> da0 and my scsi drive becomes da1, >> the system says switching to da0 >> but obviously cannot boot off the zip. > > For the next time, please read up before asking a question here. For > example, the answer to your question can be clearly found in the sample > kernel configuration file, /sys/i386/conf/LINT. > > You should "wire down" your SCSI hard drive to da0. This can be done like > this (in the kernel config file): For example, if your SCSI boot disk is > SCSI ID #0 > > disk da0 at scbus0 target 0 unit 0 > ^---- replace this with your SCSI disk's SCSI ID > > This way, your SCSI disk will always get assigned to da0, no matter what > other devices are in your SCSI chain (or not). > --- > Donald Burr -Member The FreeBSD Project| PGP: Your > *NEW* WWW HomePage: http://more.at/dburr/ ICQ #16997506 | right to > Address: P.O. Box 91212, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1212 | 'Net privacy. > Phone: (805) 957-9666 FAX: (800) 492-5954 | USE IT. ---------------------------------- E-Mail: vagner@vagner.com or kf7nn@kf7nn.com Date: 28-Jun-99 Time: 14:00:10 Frankfort, Kentucky, makes it against the law to shoot off a policeman's tie. This message was sent using FreeBSD Unix. ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message