Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:52:46 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Renaming USB device Message-ID: <20091110235246.4eefd728@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3394F75F@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> References: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3394F75F@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com>
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On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:19:39 -0600 Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com> wrote: > When a system has a USB drive present, the system typically names > it /dev/da0. However, if the system has SATA drives hooked to an LSI > controller, or if the system has SCSI drives, the same drive prefix > is used as is for the USB drive. For our purposes, we'd like to > separate the USB drive from the main hard drives as far as the drive > prefix is concerned, for example something like /dev/usb0 would be > ideal. I realize this is something that likely has to be done in the > form of a kernel patch, but the question is can it be easily done you can use glabel to give the devices unique names.
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