Re: bios disk numbers and device names

From: Daniel O'Connor (doconnor_at_gsoft.com.au)
Date: 11/29/04

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    To: Michael Grant <mg-fbsd3@grant.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 23:00:34 +1030

    On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 22:51, Michael Grant wrote:
    > > What sort of device in particular?
    >
    > Specifically, ata and scsi. This is a big problem for me. Once I
    > lost a controller and it was a nightmare trying to get the machine to
    > boot after moving the disks to the other controller. Another time I
    > added a disk and again it was a nightmare.

    You can wire disks down in SCSI, not sure about ATA.

    If a controller died then you will still be in trouble because the wiring
    wouldn't be correct either :(

    Adding a disk is where wiring works OK.

    > Has anyone thought about this problem? Is there some spare space in
    > the label that could be used for a device name that, if set, could
    > be used in place of (or an alias for) a name like da0?

    I don't think this is feasible given the way things work at the moment :(
    That said if you run 5.x devfs makes this sort of thing MUCH less painful..
    You just boot single user, edit /etc/fstab, and go. 

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