[wplug] moving scsi drives...

Jonathan S. Billings billings at negate.org
Tue Sep 30 08:06:44 EDT 2003


The scsi device naming depends on the order that the devices load.  You  
could probably force the MO drive to have it's driver loaded first by  
using an initrd, and have the SCSI controller loaded prior to the USB  
controller.

On Monday, Sep 29, 2003, at 23:05 America/New_York, John Harrold wrote:

> ok i have a mo (mageneto-optical) attached to my scsi bus along with  
> some
> cdrom drives. it was formally /dev/sda. i recently added a usb compact
> flash drive to my system which shifted the modrive to /dev/sdb. now if  
> i
> disconnect the usb device the mo will become /dev/sda once again. so is
> there any way to tell the mo drive to be a device?
>
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