bios disk numbers and device names

[Daniel O'Connor]

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.

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