Subject: Re: Drive Numbering...
To: Frank Dana <danaf@cs.rpi.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@SJ.Xenotropic.COM>
List: current-users
Date: 11/15/1995 08:34:31
On Wed, 15 Nov 1995 02:46:21 -0500 
 Frank Dana <danaf@cs.rpi.edu> wrote:

 > Could we puh-leeeeze get the device numbering set up so that it at least
 > sorta reflects physical ID numbers? Or, at the very least, doesn't change
 > if you add/remove anywhere but the end of the ID chain?

It's already possible to do.  Instead of:

sd* at scsibus? targ ? lun ?

use:

sd0 at scsibus? targ 0 lun 0
sd1 at scsibus? targ 1 lun 0
sd2 at scsibus? targ 2 lun 0
sd3 at scsibus? targ 3 lun 0
[ . . . ]

...in your kernel config file.

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Jason R. Thorpe                                         thorpej@Xenotropic.COM

           Just me and my collection of obsolete computer gear(s).