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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA & USB SCSI drives...
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 19:15:08
Message-Id: 7573e9640607131148r653b851ancb44128b32631544@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] SATA & USB SCSI drives... by "Sieb
1 On 7/13/06, Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn) <sieb@××××××.com> wrote:
2 > Hi everyone..
3 >
4 > Running 2006.0, 2.6.15-r5 kernel
5 >
6 > 1U box, SATA boot drive (sda), and an attached USB drive (in theory, sdb) for on-site backup storage.
7 >
8 > Problem is--if the USB drive is plugged into the system when it reboots, the *USB drive* comes up as sda.
9
10 Build USB support as modules, then they won't be available until after
11 the root filesystem is mounted and udev is started.
12
13 At that point, use udev rules to fix the USB drive's device node to
14 something less generic...like /dev/backups.
15
16 -Richard
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