Re: Questions re: disklabel for external USB drives

2006-12-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:34:59PM +0100, Joerg Pernfuss wrote: > On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 14:17:29 -0500 > Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Is there an easy way to force the device to work as something like: > > > > > > /dev/da1s1d > > > > > > on all of the servers, including one

Re: Questions re: disklabel for external USB drives

2006-12-11 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 14:17:29 -0500 Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there an easy way to force the device to work as something like: > > > > /dev/da1s1d > > > > on all of the servers, including ones that do not already have a > > SCSI disk subsystem and existing /dev/da0 device

Re: Questions re: disklabel for external USB drives

2006-12-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 02:26:42PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 02:05:27PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > > I just got an external USB drive that I want to use for disk-based > > > backups. It is impor

Re: Questions re: disklabel for external USB drives

2006-12-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 02:05:27PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I just got an external USB drive that I want to use for disk-based > backups. It is important that this drive be useable on different FreeBSD > servers that we have. > > I got it working on a test server ok, but I noticed th

Questions re: disklabel for external USB drives

2006-12-11 Thread up
I just got an external USB drive that I want to use for disk-based backups. It is important that this drive be useable on different FreeBSD servers that we have. I got it working on a test server ok, but I noticed that the sysinstall utility labeled the device as: /dev/da0s1d Since the test se