Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 17:22:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin@FreeBSD.org> To: Barney Cordoba <barney_cordoba@yahoo.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SATA drive device moving on 8.0 current Message-ID: <20090201171938.H97967@ury.york.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20490.74948.qm@web63901.mail.re1.yahoo.com> References: <20490.74948.qm@web63901.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
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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
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