From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 2 9: 0:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from axl.noc.iafrica.com (axl.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F84414CB6 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 08:59:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.noc.iafrica.com) by axl.noc.iafrica.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10HsSp-0000OK-00; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 18:56:11 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Bruce Evans , sos@freebsd.dk, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATAPI and ATAPI_STATIC with the new ATA* driver? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 03 Mar 1999 00:53:37 +0900." <36DC0981.5366E29A@newsguy.com> Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 18:56:11 +0200 Message-ID: <1507.920393771@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 03 Mar 1999 00:53:37 +0900, "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > > The only thing that bit me was that I used wd0 and wd2 with the older > > driver, whereas the newer driver automatically decided to use ad0 and > > ad1. [...] > Besides, it is not even a breakage. It finally got _unbroken_. :-) All I'm trying to say (and I agree that I really should learn to say exactly what I mean on this mailing list) is that this is something about which much song and dance will need to be made when the driver makes it into STABLE. I didn't read the announcement carefully enough. Nevertheless, I think it'll be useful for any future announcement to STABLE to say something like: Remember that disks are now numbered in the sequence in which they are found (as under the SCSI system), not in absolute positions as they were with the old system. For example, if you had wd0 and wd2 but no wd1, you'll now have wd0 and wd1. Watch out for this, because you may need to change your /etc/fstab and create appropriate entriess in /dev/ before booting your new kernel. I think that Soren's announcement was perfectly adequate for the intended audience, but I do believe that something like the suggestion above will help "other weenies like me" even more. :-) Ciao, Sheldon. Microsoft Windows NT - now sporting cutting-edge features cribbed from operating systems that only introduced them 20 years ago. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message