Tru64 5.x disk device numbering ..

From: Thomas Leitner <tom_at_radar.tu-graz.ac.at>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 15:06:57 +0200 (MET DST)

Hi,

I need a quick answer to this as I'm currently duplicating the system disk
on one of our machines: Apparently Tru64 5.x numbers disk devices with
/dev/disk/dskXX where XX seems to be ever increasing. I already had a
number of disks installed and removed on this machines and I always had XX
increasing. The new installation, however should have /dev/disk/dsk0 as
the system disk. How can I achieve that? Currently I'm booting from the
old system disk and the new disk is /dev/disk/dsk7. How can I achieve
that /dev/disk/dsk7 becomes /dev/disk/dsk0 when I boot next time?

I've already tried this:

# hwmgr -show scsi
# hwmgr -delete component -id XX

and deleted all but the system disk. I've also ensured that there
are no associated /dev/disk and /dev/rdisk entries anymore. However next
time when I boot up it automatically creates a /dev/disk/dsk8 and so on
ad infinitum?

Any ideas anyone to to influence this behaviour?

Thanks // Tom

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