Hello,
does anyone know how to fix the device name on a debian linux system? For example. If i have two IDE hardisks, the devices will be named like this.
/dev/hda /dev/hdb
If i now must remove the first harddisk (/dev/hda) the second (/dev/hdb) will be renamed to (/dev/hda) after the reboot. As i want /dev/hdb to be a mirror of /dev/hda and used as failover disk _without_ opening the case and tampering with the IDE bus setup, i want linux to keep the name /dev/hdb for the drive no matter what happens.
Is this possible?
Another question. How can i copy two identical discs _including_ the boot block? "dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb" doesnt do it and there are no raw devices on linux AFAIK.
thx,
Arnd
