setting usb disc to da1

[Daniel O'Connor]

On 13/05/2011, at 7:08, Thomas Krause wrote:
> I've plugged a USB disc to a FreeBSD System and it's dedected as da1:
> 
> da1: <Samsung G3 Station > Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
> 
> But when rebooting the machine, it becomes da0 and I cannot boot the
> system. What's the trick to set the USB disc to da1 permanent?

You can, to some degree, wire the device with..
hint.scbus.0.at="umass-sim0"
hint.da0.at="scbus0"

However I would recommend using GPT IDs, UFS IDs or GEOM labels in fstab so the underlying device name is irrelevant.

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