Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 10:12:30 +0100 (CET) From: Hendrik Bunke <bunke@hbxt.org> To: Gavin Atkinson <gavin@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Barney Cordoba <barney_cordoba@yahoo.com>, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SATA drive device moving on 8.0 current Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0902021008160.22208@sisko.hbxt.de> In-Reply-To: <20090201171938.H97967@ury.york.ac.uk> References: <20490.74948.qm@web63901.mail.re1.yahoo.com> <20090201171938.H97967@ury.york.ac.uk>
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--On Sun, 1 Feb 2009 17:22, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > 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. I've had the same problem recently after upgrading from 7.1-RELEASE to -stable. The only difference being obvious to me was the modified driver for the Intel ICH10 SATA controller. regards hendrik -- Dr. Hendrik Bunke blog: http://hbxt.org/ com: http://hbxt.de/
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