Re: Problem with multiple scsi adapters and drive assignments

2008-03-19 Thread John A.
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 7:45 PM, Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The solution is not to change the order in which things are probed, but to hard-wire which name is assigned to which disk. See the SCSI(4) manpage for information on how to do this by setting hints in /boot/device.hints.

Problem with multiple scsi adapters and drive assignments

2008-03-18 Thread John A.
I've searched all over (not totally exhaustive, but close) and can't find an answer that I thought would have come up before. Basically, I need to change the order that the kernel assigns drive names on bootup. It all started out with an old Intel server board with NCR/Symbios scsi builton. I

Re: Problem with multiple scsi adapters and drive assignments

2008-03-18 Thread Patrick C
This is exactly what labeling your disks solves. Please see info on 'tunefs' and 'glabel' which provide labels to devices. Basically, when you insert a device not only does it get its scan-order-based /dev/___, it also gets a named entry in either /dev/ufs/ or /dev/label (tunefs/geom). You then

Re: Problem with multiple scsi adapters and drive assignments

2008-03-18 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 06:37:30PM -0400, John A. wrote: I've searched all over (not totally exhaustive, but close) and can't find an answer that I thought would have come up before. Basically, I need to change the order that the kernel assigns drive names on bootup. It all started out with