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.
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
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
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