On 12/12/05, Gebhardt Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > can someone please give me a hint/a pointer to docs > on how to solve the following problem: > > A server has both an internal and an external raid controler > (scsi driver gdth and aic7xxx, respectively). Unfortunately > the external raid becomes /dev/sda, the internal raid becomes > /dev/sdb. When I boot with the external raid unplugged, the > the internal raid becomes /dev/sda. > > I can swap the device names by altering the sequence of the > scsi module loading in the initrd. But I'd like to compile the > scsi drivers into the kernel, since all my other servers are > booting without an initrd, too. > > Is there a way to accomplish this? If there is more than one way: > what's the state of the art? (I googled for some solutions that > involved devfs). > > There is a work out with udev See the article in http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/126. same principle can be applied for your USB hard drive.
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