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From: Holger Kipp <Holger.Kipp@alogis.com>
To: Michael Grant <mg-fbsd3@grant.org>
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Subject: Re: How does CAM determine the order to number drives ?
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On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 11:36:10AM -0400, Michael Grant wrote:
> I just want to toss this out as an idea: Would it be possible to put
> some identifier somewhere on the drive itself when you partition the
> drive such that the drive itself could always come up in the same
> place regardless even if it moved to a different controller?

iirc vinum provides something like this :-)

Regards,
Holger Kipp