FreeBSD RELENG_7 scsi and usb, usb disks take precedence

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Thu Oct 16 09:46:44 PDT 2008


In the last episode (Oct 16), Eric Masson said:
> "Svein Skogen (List Mail Account)" <svein-listmail at d80.iso100.no> writes:
> > With all due respect, if sysinstall isn't able to write those labels,
> > this is hardly the solution to the problem...  ;)
> 
> Sysinstall, even if it has proven to be useful, is outdated in many
> respects, it doesn't cope really well with GEOM or ZFS for example.
> 
> Using GEOM labels ensure that fstab will always be consistent, so
> *this is* a solution.
> 
> Now, you can try to patch the kernel to make it probe devices in a
> predefined & sorted order, but I guess it will be much more difficult
> ;)

No patching needed.  You can wire down the unit number of your scsi bus
and drive with boot hints as described in the scsi(4) manpage.  Wire
the adaptec card down as scbus0, and wire the device at scbus0.0 down
as da0.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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