Paul Howarth wrote: >> I really want my DDS2 drive to remain at st0 and my DLT to be st1 > >>across every single reboot, whether it's powered on or not. >> >> Pointers folks? >You can probably achieve this by creating a pair of local udev rules in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-custom.rules that identify your specific devices and create the device nodes before the "standard" Fedora rules get a chance to do it. >See: http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php for details on how to write these rules. >Paul. Thanks Paul. This looks like it's what I need. I can se e the value of udev, as used to static binding as I am from Solaris. Michael Peter's pointer about hal will bear more digging, but udev looks like it will fill the bill once I master the subject. That's not happening tonight - not after a week of tracing gigs of Vertias NetBackup logs. :-) Again, many thanks for the pointer and URL. David Kerrivan