>>>>> "IS" == Ignatios Souvatzis writes:

 IS> Maybe I should add that for normal booting, root devices tend to not
 IS> change their name all the time, so having the sysadmin edit fstab once
 IS> at installation or reconfiguration time is good enough.
 >>  Consider my disk has name `sd0' (because it was detected first during
 >> the kernel booting). Later I will add ZIP drive and IT will get the name
 >> `sd0' and hard disk will become `sd1'.  Bad surprise, manual intervention
 >> required.  Something like `/dev/scsi/dsk/c0d0p0' as root fs unique
 >> identifier will help.
 >> 

 IS> If you insist to make your boot drive scsi id 1, and not having any
 IS> fixed disk scsi id 0, you can still wire down the sd unit of your root
 IS> disk in your kernel configuration.

	OK, here are excerpts from my `dmesg' output:

NetBSD 1.4K (TINDERBOX) #1: Sat Sep 18 15:08:22 MSD 1999
    root@dazzle.org:/usr/sup/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/TINDERBOX
cpu0: family 6 model 5 step 1
cpu0: Intel Pentium II (Deschutes) (686-class)
[....]
pciide0 at pci0 dev 7 function 1: Intel 82371AB IDE controller (PIIX4)
pciide0: bus-master DMA support present
pciide0: primary channel wired to compatibility mode
atapibus0 at pciide0 channel 0
sd0 at atapibus0 drive 1: <IOMEGA  ZIP 100       ATAPI, , 23.D> type 0 direct removable
sd0: drive offline
sd0: 32-bits data port
pciide0: primary channel interrupting at irq 14
sd0(pciide0:0:1): using PIO mode 3
pciide0: secondary channel wired to compatibility mode
atapibus1 at pciide0 channel 1
[....]
ncr0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0: ncr 53c875 fast20 wide scsi
ncr0: interrupting at irq 10
ncr0: minsync=12, maxsync=137, maxoffs=16, 128 dwords burst, large dma fifo
ncr0: single-ended, open drain IRQ driver, using on-chip SRAM
ncr0: restart (scsi reset).
scsibus0 at ncr0: 16 targets, 8 luns per target
sd1 at scsibus0 targ 1 lun 0: <SEAGATE, ST52160N, 0285> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd1(ncr0:1:0): 20.0 MB/s (50 ns, offset 15)
sd1: 2069 MB, 6536 cyl, 4 head, 162 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 4238282 sectors
sd2 at scsibus0 targ 2 lun 0: <SEAGATE, ST36530N, 1206> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd2(ncr0:2:0): 20.0 MB/s (50 ns, offset 15)
sd2: 6208 MB, 9006 cyl, 6 head, 235 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 12715920 sectors
[....]

	So, what you mean when you say  `you can still  wire down the sd unit
	of your root disk in your kernel configuration'?

 IS> Just don't force me to do the same, when I don't need it.  -is

	Well, then   we'll have  yet  another small   and useless  toy called
	`NetBSD' that runs on some ancient hardware. What a terrible future.