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Date:      Mon, 5 Jan 2004 18:00:20 -0600
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
To:        "John R. Shannon" <john@johnrshannon.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: umass conflicts with scsi disk drives
Message-ID:  <20040106000020.GB48603@over-yonder.net>
In-Reply-To: <200401021215.35921.john@johnrshannon.com>
References:  <200401021148.59704.john@johnrshannon.com> <200401021215.35921.john@johnrshannon.com>

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On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 12:15:34PM -0700 I heard the voice of
John R. Shannon, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> It appears that I misinterpreted the events because they scroll by so quickly. 
> The disk assignments are simply changing depending on whether the umass 
> device is attached or not.
> 
> Question: How do I fix the device assignments (da) so that the system disk 
> will always have the same device number?

You can wire things down with hints.  Though I haven't used my
parallel-port ZIP drive in years (maybe even a millenium), I've still got
it in my hints file:

hint.scbus.10.at="vpo0"
hint.da.20.at="scbus10"

Just stick the umass controller and the device way up somewhere they
won't conflict.



-- 
Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)   |  fullermd@over-yonder.net
Systems/Network Administrator |  http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/

"The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I
      haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"



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