On 27/03/07, James Fidell <james at cloud9.co.uk> wrote: > I have a server which may or may not have a USB storage device connected > when it boots. It also attaches to a disk array with a number of > logical disks using ISCSI. > > When booted with the USB device present, that is attached to /dev/sdb > and the ISCSI disks are attached to /dev/sdc up. If the USB device is > not present, then the ISCSI disks are attached to /dev/sdb onwards. > > Is there a way to force the USB device not to be attached at all, or > to delay it until after the ISCSI disks have been attached so that I > get a predictable assignment of device names to the ISCSI disks? You can assign specific drive naming/lettering conventions using UDev rules. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7316 http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=udev+device+naming&meta= Will.