Well, last night I booted it without the drive plugged in and plugged it in afterwards. I imagine you would want to see a dmesg after I booted it WITH the usb drive plugged in, and I can't get that right now (I'm at work with only ssh access to the box). I can do that tonight though and paste the output of a dmesg afterwards.
I did verify that it sees the RAID5 logical drive as a SCSI. And that's how it designates the external USB drive too. Here's an output of a df command I just ran (the USB drive is connected and mounted at /usbbackup):
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/da0s1a 496M 39M 417M 8% /
devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev
/dev/da0s1e 496M 60K 456M 0% /tmp
/dev/da0s1f 285G 203G 59G 78% /usr
/dev/da0s1d 1.7G 18M 1.5G 1% /var
/dev/da1s1 279G 199G 81G 71% /usbbackup
#
So, here's an idea. Can I add /dev/da1s1 to my fstab with the noauto option as a way to tell it not to mount the USB drive at all on boot (my script mounts and umounts it when it's needed anyway)? Or is fstab not referenced during boot until AFTER the point where it's asking me where to mount root from? Or, is it just a crazy idea altogether?
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