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Subject: [Bug 210572] Installer does not fully identify discs in
 multiple-disc system
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2016 14:27:58 +0000
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D210572

            Bug ID: 210572
           Summary: Installer does not fully identify discs in
                    multiple-disc system
           Product: Base System
           Version: 10.3-STABLE
          Hardware: amd64
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Some People
          Priority: ---
         Component: misc
          Assignee: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: scratch65535@att.net
                CC: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org
                CC: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org

This is a significant human-factors issue.

Installing 10.3 to a system with 4 motherboard SATA ports and a re-flashed
M1015 8-port SAS controller card, all fully populated with disks, I realised
that the disc identifier offered is the *model number*, which is not at all
useful when there are several discs of the same model installed.  Since the
bios and the os don't necessarily agree on the device ordering, I had no wa=
y of
reliably picking out my intended install disc.  I had to shut down, disconn=
ect
the data cables from every disc but the ones to the dvd drive and the insta=
ll
disc, and then restart.

If the installer showed the model number, size, AND the existing partitions,
the problem I had would not have arisen.

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