Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:22:02 -1000 From: Clifton Royston <cliftonr@lava.net> To: Chris <chrcoluk@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0 Questions Message-ID: <20080228172201.GA8954@lava.net> In-Reply-To: <3aaaa3a0802280639i5217bd64xe2c0e1a1a518e9d@mail.gmail.com> References: <42F1932C-6F6B-4077-8C15-294AA6CFB678@lafn.org> <20080228075647.GA33902@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <47C691F7.2080208@bulinfo.net> <3aaaa3a0802280639i5217bd64xe2c0e1a1a518e9d@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 02:39:35PM +0000, Chris wrote:
> On 28/02/2008, Krassimir Slavchev <krassi@bulinfo.net> wrote:
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> > Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:15:30PM -0800, Doug Hardie wrote:
> > >> I have just installed 7.0 on some new hardware. Have never tried earlier
> > >> versions. There are a couple of unexpected items that I do not understand.
> > >>
> > >> 2. I have 2 SATA drives in the system. The first is recognized as ad10
> > >> and the second as ad12. I expected to see ad0 and ad1.
...
> > > Thus, never expect the adX devices to "start with 0".
> >
> > If you want adX devices to "start with 0" just remove 'options
> > ATA_STATIC_ID' from the kernel config file but be very carefully if you
> > change hardware!
...
> Ahh thats useful, on the occasions I have remotely installed freebsd
> over linux I have always failed due to incorrectly guessing the hd id
> and as such a wrong fstab, if I know it will always be ad0 and ad1 and
> so on it makes this much easier.
And if you ever add a second drive, and it happens to be detected
first, expect a lot of work getting things working again. There are
good reasons for doing it this way, though you do get a choice.
-- Clifton
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