On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 01:17:37PM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> On 23 Sep 1999, Oleg Polyanski wrote:
> 
> > >>>>> "IS" == Ignatios Souvatzis writes:
> > 
> >  >>  I'm not sure that it makes our life easier.  Right now we have floating
> >  >> disk naming scheme - disk detected first will get number `0' even if it
> >  >> has, for example, SCSI ID 5 so when I add another disk with SCSI ID
> >  >> number 2 (for example, I would like to add large /opt file system) it
> >  >> becomes first (i.e.  sd0), not the former `first' disk.  You cannot mount
> >  >> root fs without editing your `/etc/fstab'.  It's weird.  Disk naming
> >  >> scheme must depend on device physical properties (SCSI ID, master/slave
> >  >> or something like that).
> 
> You're always supposed to wire down your devices, once you get the system
> up and running. :-) i.e. add
> 
> sd0 at scsibus0 target 5 lun 0
> 
> etc. to your kernel config file.
> 
> I'll admit I don't, but I take my chances with unit numbers moving around.

I, as a rule, jumper the system disks (all the non-external disks) to 
the low scsi id's, so that they don't jump if I change the external
configurations. :-)

	-is