From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 5 22:40: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EC7BC37B404 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 22:39:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 10490 invoked by uid 100); 6 Feb 2002 06:39:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15456.53123.939307.678791@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 00:38:59 -0600 To: Alan Eldridge Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA_STATIC_IDS In-Reply-To: <20020205145835.GA52357@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> References: <91010086@toto.iv> <15455.32686.88737.631037@guru.mired.org> <20020205070406.GA93914@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> <15455.40571.628684.410211@guru.mired.org> <20020205145835.GA52357@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.44 (Python 2.2; freebsd-4.5-STABLE-i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alan Eldridge types: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 02:57:31AM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > >Alan Eldridge types: > >> So let me ask this: why would you want to use dynamic ids? With vinum, > >> perhaps? > >You only get into problems if you change the disk configuration. If > >you're not going to do that, wouldn't you prefer having ad0 and ad1 to > >having ad4 and ad6? > Certainly. If I'm doing a fresh install, can I get the CDROM boot to come > up using dynamic numbers so I don't have the transitioning problem? Sure. All you have to do is build your own install CDROM with a kernel that disables the static ids. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message