On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 08:49, Timothy Murphy wrote:
The only concrete example I have seen put forward
of a case where it might help
is if one has two or more SCSI disks, and one fails,
so that the others are re-named (eg /dev/sdb -> /dev/sda).
Has this ever happened to anyone?
I've been using SCSI disks for some time,
and never known one to fail
and simply be ignored by the SCSI controller.
It isn't just when it fails. They move when you add
or remove other disks with lower scsi ID's or on
a controller that is detected earlier. I have seen
that, but the reason - and fix - was always obvious
since it was a direct result of hardware changes, unlike
the failure to boot that may or may not happen depending
on the prior contents of a disk you are adding in a
non-boot position.
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Les Mikesell
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