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Date:      Sun, 24 Apr 2011 12:15:51 +0300
From:      Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r220982 - in head: . sys/amd64/conf sys/arm/conf sys/conf sys/i386/conf sys/ia64/conf sys/mips/conf sys/mips/malta sys/pc98/conf sys/powerpc/conf sys/sparc64/conf sys/sun4v/conf
Message-ID:  <4DB3EA47.5070304@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110424100611.000020eb@unknown>
References:  <201104240858.p3O8wwqT024628@svn.freebsd.org> <20110424100611.000020eb@unknown>

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On 24.04.2011 12:06, Bruce Cran wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 08:58:58 +0000 (UTC)
> Alexander Motin<mav@FreeBSD.org>  wrote:
>
>> If you are using ATA
>> device names in /etc/fstab or other places, make sure to update them
>> respectively (adX ->  adaY, acdX ->  cdY, afdX ->  daY, astX ->  saY,
>> where 'Y's are the sequential numbers for each type in order of
>> detection, unless configured otherwise with tunables, see cam(4)).
>
> People might expect that if ata(4) numbering starts with ad4, ada4
> would be created. However on my machines I've seen ad4 get mapped to
> ada0.

Yes. With sequential I mean from 0 and up. :)

What's about 4, I believe not so many people still remember what does it 
mean, and probably none for whom that reason is important now. :)

-- 
Alexander Motin



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