Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 09:46:22 -0800 (PST) From: Barney Cordoba <barney_cordoba@yahoo.com> To: Gavin Atkinson <gavin@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SATA drive device moving on 8.0 current Message-ID: <152543.56415.qm@web63908.mail.re1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20090201171938.H97967@ury.york.ac.uk>
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--- On Sun, 2/1/09, Gavin Atkinson <gavin@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin@FreeBSD.org> > Subject: Re: SATA drive device moving on 8.0 current > To: "Barney Cordoba" <barney_cordoba@yahoo.com> > Cc: current@FreeBSD.org > Date: Sunday, February 1, 2009, 12:22 PM > On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Barney Cordoba wrote: > > > I booted 8.0-current on a machine that was running 7 > and the SATA drive > > came up as ad4 instead of ad8 (as it is detected in > 7). This is the case > > was loading GENERIC. > > > > This is going to present a serious problem doing field > upgrades as its > > expected that fstab will be the same. What is the > reason for the change and > > is there any way to make it compatible with device > detection in 7? > > I suspect the problem is caused by some changes made in > -CURRENT a few months ago, which had the potential to change > the order that some devices may be detected. > > Can you post online a dmesg from both 7.x and 8.0 > somewhere? > > Gavin Yes. The machine is indisposed at the moment, but I'll post it next time I fire up 8.0 Barney
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