From owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Mon Nov 16 19:40:14 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 025B3A3037E; Mon, 16 Nov 2015 19:40:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fjwcash@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ob0-x244.google.com (mail-ob0-x244.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c01::244]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B9A5F1770; Mon, 16 Nov 2015 19:40:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fjwcash@gmail.com) Received: by obbbj7 with SMTP id bj7so13219112obb.3; Mon, 16 Nov 2015 11:40:13 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=kdG2KizSVUPL+J7KLCanem6IYZHMCJCm25+YsXbqAcE=; b=VNjPofSo2aKJgaRvyW/SBDRctXFiqyBqh3XtusrjynkfOXK7pzC6Nw+xBnWHKofci4 APBO91bad4985i3smghf6fGbOF8Ek1uYAowzmEHrOU6MV2aBIiviGuAnxab8CxjQlr4v OO5ewcUyqfHPxkvPgHgtumUgwGz3xicjVJXnOU8tE8RzbxFPwDUIsHeFAMe7YL9zf+kP JfEQuZBX1SIYbBh9RDzCeg7c7WNgu8wYOstVCZAovhY4rvUuZx9IGPWt7Nm3g3M5U6Qv XJiS5qJbeiseqlOGUiW2hTGsWdsZ9QUdgIEQqm5u+EnPnRHDIHMrSvKUWnbfh6oto30r O3GA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.182.91.6 with SMTP id ca6mr2519502obb.24.1447702813038; Mon, 16 Nov 2015 11:40:13 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.76.29.74 with HTTP; Mon, 16 Nov 2015 11:40:12 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <5644FF09.9090200@free.de> <56472686.5030301@free.de> <20151114143104.GA41119@in-addr.com> <7710CBCC-E68F-4454-9E29-E50ED1C6B511@sarenet.es> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 11:40:12 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: LSI SAS2008 mps driver preferred firmware version From: Freddie Cash To: Kevin Oberman Cc: Borja Marcos , freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, Royce Williams , freebsd-stable , Kai Gallasch Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 19:40:14 -0000 On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Kevin Oberman wrote= : > On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 1:00 AM, Borja Marcos wrote: > > > > > On Nov 14, 2015, at 3:31 PM, Gary Palmer wrote: > > > > > You can do thinks in /boot/loader.conf to hard code bus and drive > > > assignments. > > > > > > e.g. > > > > > > hint.da.0.at=3D"scbus0" > > > hint.da.0.target=3D"19" > > > hint.da.0.unit=3D"0" > > > hint.da.1.at=3D"scbus0" > > > hint.da.1.target=3D"18" > > > hint.da.1.unit=3D"0" > > > > Beware, the target number assignment is not predictable. There's no > > guarantee especially if you replace > > a disk. > > > > > > > > > > > > Borja. > > > > As already mentioned, unless you are using zfs, use gpart to label you fi= le > systems/disks. Then use the /dev/gpt/LABEL as the mount device in fstab. > =E2=80=8BEven if you are using ZFS, labelling the drives with the location = of the disk in the system (enclosure, column, row, whatever) makes things so much easier to work with when there are disk-related issues. Just create a single partition that covers the whole disk, label it, and use the label to create the vdevs in the pool.=E2=80=8B --=20 Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com