From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 3 17:35:51 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C87BB106566B for ; Wed, 3 Feb 2010 17:35:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bahamasfranks@gmail.com) Received: from mail-px0-f190.google.com (mail-px0-f190.google.com [209.85.216.190]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A50AB8FC0A for ; Wed, 3 Feb 2010 17:35:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi28 with SMTP id 28so1714509pxi.7 for ; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:35:51 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=4gW8pJ3BzRx39OGE67modXqsN/BwwZ0hBJBa7tIOkRU=; b=JnomXUOb8L+b1TWALq0EcDAm/PgpYdbL5sulZWYcaYZ7/njuVNscc1uw5/zKNAujai YOibGgHOqZUmqld0jD4cfh5pzIDwAWhfIrD+eUrSdVtCPV3OqyOFGQ3bkcMh6hx6cWYn ZJMw+KWqj/bKPS+TRkOGx5bSneg0k1TtejHas= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=pDYgWblgnKXzIFyWU1yeyDZr3DbPBJsSpo/LkY4kO/MRHhPJRLVc02+L+yiClLluIf bAp8IMuwOu4cS7MJ8uYPQBoQwNFh+/nA60UGUbC0XItevv0ArVc1/Gkl9eQKTIYxl0s0 7kC3L95q7OdbdcXnxyoJHJvCHR8nkJ7x8tlGs= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.143.25.15 with SMTP id c15mr2169836wfj.47.1265218548750; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:35:48 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 10:35:48 -0700 Message-ID: <539c60b91002030935m31f66c6ft247f1231ad61656@mail.gmail.com> From: Steve Franks To: FreeBSD Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: adding disk moves ad0 to ad4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:35:51 -0000 Just curious, having read the handbook section talking about freebsd going straight to the hardware and skipping the bios for disk numbering, why then, if I stick a sata disk in 'sata0' on the motherboard, does it come up as ad0, but if I add a second disk in 'sata1' or 'pata0', on the next boot, I have no ad0, but ad4 and ad6? This seems to be the case with every mobo I've owned in the last 2 years from a variety of mfr's. Is there a way around this? I don't care what it comes out as, as long as it stays put... Since I have the only fbsd system at work, I tend to format alot of funky drives for people, and it gets anoying having to swap fstab's every time... Steve