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SubjectRe: Name of SCSI Device
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You write:
> If we install a SCSI hard disk drive, with ID3, an nothing on ID1 or ID2,
> will be sda. If we install a new disk on ID1, the drive that before was
> sda now change the name to sdb.
>
> Why the name of hard disk drive of SCSI Controller are not fixed?
> ID0=sda
> ID1=sdb
> ID2=sdc

There are not enough major/minor numbers to do this.

> Then, it is possible that we must change /etc/fstab

If you are using ext2 (or ext3), it is possible to mount by filesystem
LABEL or UUID. See man pages for e2label/tune2fs/dumpe2fs/mount(8)/fstab(5).

Cheers, Andreas
--
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\ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?"
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