Subject: Re: Attaching additional HDD - such simple(?) thing not without problems
To: Zbigniew Baniewski <zb@ispid.com.pl>
From: Pavel Cahyna <pavel.cahyna@st.mff.cuni.cz>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/24/2006 02:23:53
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 02:19:32AM +0200, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote:
> On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 07:57:30PM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> 
> > So, it's hard to understand why this is so upsetting to you, when one
> > considers that it would require a 10-second edit to /etc/fstab to fix.
> 
> You mean, that when I will f.e. use a bay with removable HDD, everytime
> I will place a HDD there (or remove), I will have to edit /etc/fstab?
> 
> > If you really want to force the drive on the HPT IDE controller to be
> > wd0, whether there is another drive present or not, it is also trivial
> > to build a kernel that will number it that way.
> 
> That sounds better. How it should be done? Is it described in any FAQ/HOW-TO?

Please send us your dmesg. The problematic drive does not have to be
attached.

Pavel