Date: 13 Apr 1999 14:45:37 +0200 From: Marko Schuetz <marko@ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Device numbering for e.g. da? Message-ID: <86btgsu1se.fsf@king.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de>
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I'd like to suggest that in addition to the devices /dev/da? there should be device containing the channel, SCSI id and lun of the device. The motivation is that I had a couple of SCSI disks in a machine and / was not on the first one. When there was some disk trouble such that the first drive was no longer detected correctly, the drive with SCSI id 1 became the first drive (da0) but since /etc/fstab was not changed accordingly the system didn't finish booting, giving some message like 'could not change root to da1s1a'. If there is another solution to the problem I would be glad to learn it. One solution would be to use SCSI ids (as jumpered on the drive) in /etc/fstab. Marko To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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