Actually, when I boot with all the devices plugged in, it is using 
/dev/sd2 as the device for ID 6.

Also, when I boot with only the "external" drive in the chain, it seems 
to mount the root partition just fine.  It just dies trying to set up 
the swap partition.

On Friday, April 20, 2001, at 02:10 AM, Daniel Parks wrote:

> 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
> -- maybe it will snow
>