On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 08:53:26AM -0800, Dave wrote: > 2. My debian box has several scsi disks on it, and if one is turned off > at boot time, the machine mounts the wrong disks on the defined > filesystems, even though they are listed correctly in /etc/fstab. Is
this is a problem with the way the linux kernel handles device name allocation (is this the way to say it?). the thing is, /dev/sda is going to be the _first_ scsi disc on your system (the first one your kernel recognises), so if you turn on your machine with a only a disc with an id of 5 in the second controller, it will be /dev/sda. but if you hook up another disc with id 2 on the first controller, this new disc will become /dev/sda, nad the previously-know-as-/dev/sda wil become /dev/sdb. so: if you add or remove discs, every hd that has an scsi id higher that the one on the changed device will change its /dev/sda<x> place. i believe solaris does not have this problem, since it handles discs like /dev/<scsi-bus-id>/<scsi-id> or some variation... > there a way to force the machine to mount a given disk on a given > filesystem? Thanks! not on linux, i don't think so. hope this helps, Alberto.
