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. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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