Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:46:20 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: ilikefbsd@web.de Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new hdd numeration after mainboard change Message-ID: <20081013174620.GA24725@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <1675072737@web.de> References: <1675072737@web.de>
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On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 07:12:20PM +0200, ilikefbsd@web.de wrote: > i run "FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE" i had a change of the mainboard of my > lenovo notebook t60. after reboot the harddisk which was before > recognized as "ad0" is now "ad4". i cannot find any other devices, no > ad0/ad1/ad2 in /dev. even in the dmesg only ad4 The T60 is a laptop. It only has one hard disk -- so I'm not sure why you were seeing ad0, ad1, ad2 in the past. You shouldn't have been, unless you had 3 hard disks hooked up somehow. The bottom line here is this: absolutely *nothing* requires the device numbering to start at zero. And this is definitely the case. > does fbsd create a uniqe identifier for harddisks in combination with > the motherboard or something like that? where can i dig further into > that issue? It's not really an "issue". Very likely your computer has toggled some BIOS settings. The T60 series has the ability to run the SATA ports in two modes: AHCI, or Enhanced/Compatible. Chances are before the motherboard swap, yours was running in the opposite mode that it is now. I would highly recommend using the AHCI mode. It works quite well with FreeBSD under Intel controllers. Turn AHCI on (if it's not already), and do not mess with it. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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