From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 3 12:14:27 2008 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 1C2DC16A418 for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2008 12:14:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from news@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net) Received: from dd17730.kasserver.com (dd17730.kasserver.com [85.13.138.103]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D866513C459 for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2008 12:14:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from news@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net) Received: from nermal.rz1.convenimus.net (sub87-230-112-222.he-dsl.de [87.230.112.222]) by dd17730.kasserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78A931802C029 for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2008 13:14:26 +0100 (CET) Received: by nermal.rz1.convenimus.net (Postfix, from userid 8) id A9A0B15219; Sun, 3 Feb 2008 13:13:34 +0100 (CET) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Path: not-for-mail From: Christian Baer Newsgroups: gmane.os.freebsd.questions Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 13:13:34 +0100 (CET) Organization: Convenimus Projekt Lines: 36 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: sunny.rz1.convenimus.net X-Trace: nermal.rz1.convenimus.net 1202040814 58932 192.168.100.5 (3 Feb 2008 12:13:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@convenimus.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 12:13:34 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (FreeBSD/6.3-STABLE (sparc64)) Subject: Strange HDD order 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: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 12:14:27 -0000 Greetings programs! I have a computer here with 10 HDDs. Four of them are connected to the southbridge of the mainboard. The other 6 are connected to two Promise SATAII 300 TX4. Four of the drives are connected to the first controller (making it 'full') the other two connected to the second. To make the device names predictable I was very careful how I connected them. The four drives connected to the southbridge are in the right order (this also means they have the device names ad0 to ad3). The drives connected to the other controllers are a different story. The two controllers cooperate well and identify themselves as one controller only. So I get only one message showing all the drives. The drives are in this order in the BIOS message: D 0 WDC WD3200SD-01KNB0 08.05J08 (ad4) D 1 WDC WD3200SD-01KNB0 08.05J08 (ad6) D 2 SAMSUNG HD501LJ CR100-11 (ad8) D 3 SAMSUNG HD501LJ CR100-11 (ad10) D 4 Seagate ST3500320AS SD04 (ad12) D 5 Seagate ST3500320AS SD04 (ad14) The device in brackets is the one I'd expect to get. Instead, I get this: ad4: 476940MB at ata2-master SATA300 ad6: 305245MB at ata3-master SATA150 ad8: 476940MB at ata4-master SATA300 ad10: 305245MB at ata5-master SATA150 ad14: 476940MB at ata7-master SATA150 ad18: 476940MB at ata9-master SATA150 Where did I go wrong? Regards, Chris