Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:45:36 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, fjwcash@gmail.com Subject: Re: How to predict drive number change for 7.3->8.1 upgrade? Message-ID: <201009171645.o8HGjaYj015873@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinCiDX2zfeM74BonLe3Ndq44jOz1Tj4mPJScUfm@mail.gmail.com>
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Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 5:38 AM, Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> wrote: > > Remove "options ATA_STATIC_ID" from your kernel config > > before building the new kernel and rebooting. Then your > > first disk will be ad0, no matter what controller and > > channel it is connected to. Be sure to update your > > /etc/fstab file. > > Problem with doing that (no ATA_STATIC_ID) is that if you change the > order that your PCI devices are enumerated, you will change the order > in which your disks are probed, and all your numbers change again. :) > And there's an option for this in every BIOS I've worked with. Plus, > moving addon controllers from one slot to another will also re-number > your devices. He wrote that it is a rented server with just one drive. I don't see how the drive number could ever change under these circustances. So removing ATA_STATIC_ID is really the easiest solution. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "The last good thing written in C was Franz Schubert's Symphony number 9." -- Erwin Dieterich
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