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To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot chapter.sgml 
In-Reply-To: <24519.1000131281@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>; from sheldonh@starjuice.net on "Mon, 10 Sep 2001 16:14:41 +0200"
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 04:15:08 -0700
From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
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Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 04:52:03 MST, Dima Dorfman wrote:
> 
> >   Modified files:
> >     en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot chapter.sgml 
> >   Log:
> >   ad2 is the first disk on the second IDE controller.
> 
> So in this context, a form of static device numbering is in effect?  I
> didn't realize that.

As jhb pointed out, only with ATA_STATIC_IDS (or something); however,
that option *is* in GENERIC, and for lack of an explanation, ad2 would
seem to be more common than ad4.

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