Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 09:53:19 +0000 From: Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> Subject: Re: fixating USB Storage Message-ID: <201202040953.19456.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20120203231847.5279be28@cox.net> References: <CAB3Sx6evad7VOWoK3AHF6DW0y0k6ZgpBwPUMSu7Ag8-dQqSJTw@mail.gmail.com> <CAB3Sx6eGEe1qkEfYdq4JWVNHzb35wouNq6EHQ45hPPUpSdEAwA@mail.gmail.com> <20120203231847.5279be28@cox.net>
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On Saturday 04 February 2012, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > I don't know if anyone else has already mentioned it to you in > response to this question, but I just very recently switched over to > using volume labels to mount my partitions instead of device names. > =A0I was having an ongoing issue where this external USB drive's device > number assignment would change from one boot to the next, toggling > back and forth between da0 and da4 (strange!). Sounds similar to my experience. Normally my internal 4 slot memory card=20 reader is assigned devices da[0-3] and when the USB memory stick is=20 inserted it comes up as da4. If the USB stick is present on booting=20 then it appears as da0 and the card reader is da[1-4]. So it looks like=20 occupied slots are given priority when numbers are assigned at boot=20 time. =2D-=20 Mike Clarke
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