umass conflicts with scsi disk drives

[Matthew D. Fuller]

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.



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Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)   |  fullermd at over-yonder.net
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