From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 11 14:56:14 2009 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 41872106567A for ; Mon, 11 May 2009 14:56:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamesoff@gmail.com) Received: from yx-out-2324.google.com (yx-out-2324.google.com [74.125.44.30]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA75E8FC16 for ; Mon, 11 May 2009 14:56:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamesoff@gmail.com) Received: by yx-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 8so1690804yxb.13 for ; Mon, 11 May 2009 07:56:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=ppkzO94qe3A3DlF9DdJq+hZVLR5GFoy/k3E/KYs3jHU=; b=BmqnOCEBBSEN8umZNY4SPqRkdFQkUBlwCwZrV/W07MMV4YBt1kzjA936/3m+CMTrqt 2o914pAL2G6cFhBSieyPW5MPBGUOR7f5xhfl5bUsAMFIP/TII4VfU7N+Xm85WAPfmYPV hooVuSNLQ/aGhWDkujIBZbIgbgzczXRuZC1WQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=vFWkV8GSWbMmeWBvFMcY6cUGHNwNoO5ssHkORElbdZBSqQoxyuiAUlnFBPlkaXAC/X b1flqMWxdCTZu0iWRry5/Y4RKK1SDR9KoX0tDkyluscDQCn6Lx6T0hhKZnBQmKl3Id++ cBoy4sn0P2Nwb+BvnEZJ3zEucjW/n6NM6s1r8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.121.9 with SMTP id t9mr163319ybc.268.1242052509050; Mon, 11 May 2009 07:35:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200905111630.23123.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> References: <200905111630.23123.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> From: James Seward Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 15:34:49 +0100 Message-ID: <720051dc0905110734h387d39cbm9ff969336fe9d0fa@mail.gmail.com> To: Jonathan McKeown Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: single SATA disk and yet identified as '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: Mon, 11 May 2009 14:56:15 -0000 On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > Your BIOS is reporting two IDE interfaces, each of which could have a master > and slave disk drive, so ad0-3 are reserved for those four drives, meaning > SATA starts at ad4. > > Some BIOSes let you change this. Or you can take "option ATA_STATIC_ID" out of your kernel config. /JMS