FreeBSD RELENG_7 scsi and usb, usb disks take precedence

Svein Skogen (List Mail Account) svein-listmail at d80.iso100.no
Thu Oct 16 11:19:01 PDT 2008


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Dan Nelson wrote:
> 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 Sysinstall, even if it has proven to be useful, is outdated in many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.

Thank you. :)

//Svein

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