From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 4 5:12:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pooh.noc.u-net.net (pooh.noc.u-net.net [195.102.252.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E18437B41A for ; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 05:12:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from pooh.noc.u-net.net ([195.102.252.112] helo=there) by pooh.noc.u-net.net with smtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 16t72i-000CaH-00; Thu, 04 Apr 2002 14:12:44 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Peter McGarvey Reply-To: pmcgarvey@vianetworks.co.uk Organization: VIA NETdotWORKS To: johann@broadpark.no, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD acting weird after network installation Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 14:12:38 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <1017924301.3cac4acd7d681@mail.broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <1017924301.3cac4acd7d681@mail.broadpark.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: X-EXIM-FILTER: PASS-s02 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > One other thing I find peculiar is that the box' only harddrive has been > assigned the name ad2. Shouldn't it be ad1, if not ad0? I'm suspecting > some sort of harddrive malfunction, though I'd be surprised if it turned > out to be that. The `ad' driver uses static numbering when enumerating IDE Hard Disks. So: ad0 = primary master ad1 = primary slave ad2 = secondary master ad3 = secondary slave IMO changing device names based in the number of said devices is foolishness, as anyone who's added another HDD to a Windows system can testify. -- TTFN, FNORD Peter McGarvey System Administrator Network Operations, VIA Networks UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message