At 1:58 AM -0400 4/20/2001, Patrick Tepesch wrote:
>I had netbsd running on a 660 AV with the original 80MB hard drive 
>internal (id 0), a 500MB external hard drive (id 6), a zip drive (id 
>3), and an external cd drive (id 4) on the scsi chain.  netbsd is 
>installed on the external hard drive.  Everything worked. (so, of 
>course, I had to fiddle some more!)

NetBSD doesn't care what the IDs are exactly as much as what order 
they're in. Your devices are in the following order if I understand 
you:

/dev/sd0 80MB internal HD (ID 0)
/dev/sd1 zip (ID 3)
/dev/sd2 CD drive (ID 4)
/dev/sd3 external HD (ID 6)

When you remove the zip and CD, they are reordered as follows:
/dev/sd0 80MB internal HD (ID 0)
/dev/sd1 external HD (ID 6)

There may be a way to refer to a drive by it's ID, but I don't know it.

Hope this helps,
Daniel
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