From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 28 14:39:39 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD1A11065679 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:39:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chrcoluk@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2FD38FC1A for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:39:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chrcoluk@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id y2so351384uge.37 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:39:35 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=oa78FCYeplRoGiAYT7xwzGUwdVHpo9/amlv20oYSJ7c=; b=qJXkvu1DXTI9DC4tO2WAk48Jbq+px6YitoXitovMIHoy/8O3zSvZkMKE5BU8FAodiRJi9PSVl0ZAZsWghzxXeorl9bxhYjOjb4K34wQho6eWQSbTJhLH5fhxS0QrN1GiwbhR+PLpbCF/bhuk+KsGPKPLII1OGCTARKHb3HG4t/Q= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=EU36/rrCqcvDjGK4qlVp7bwTGUZgbNWqOHH717RXIurH9oJ8TwsP5khbEiI3FBNB9FoODSruKUFm0jktnulaKTu1zvD4ucz47txmHceajyApONF82PgzaTiGiq2nkl6ZnhJHp16c2LOBVvGx+7FurhSTejtPoUzDPaKqtplnHvo= Received: by 10.66.251.3 with SMTP id y3mr3407711ugh.88.1204209575575; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:39:35 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.66.219.18 with HTTP; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:39:35 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3aaaa3a0802280639i5217bd64xe2c0e1a1a518e9d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:39:35 +0000 From: Chris To: "Krassimir Slavchev" In-Reply-To: <47C691F7.2080208@bulinfo.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <42F1932C-6F6B-4077-8C15-294AA6CFB678@lafn.org> <20080228075647.GA33902@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <47C691F7.2080208@bulinfo.net> Cc: Jeremy Chadwick , FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0 Questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:39:40 -0000 On 28/02/2008, Krassimir Slavchev wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:15:30PM -0800, Doug Hardie wrote: > >> I have just installed 7.0 on some new hardware. Have never tried earlier > >> versions. There are a couple of unexpected items that I do not understand. > >> > >> 2. I have 2 SATA drives in the system. The first is recognized as ad10 > >> and the second as ad12. I expected to see ad0 and ad1. > > > > You shouldn't "expect" this in any way shape or form. The device > > numbers are not consistent, and are known to change depending upon lots > > of reasons (AHCI disabled/enabled, another ATA controller in place, SATA > > in "compatible" mode or "enhanced" mode, etc. etc.). > > > > Thus, never expect the adX devices to "start with 0". > > > > If you want adX devices to "start with 0" just remove 'options > ATA_STATIC_ID' from the kernel config file but be very carefully if you > change hardware! > > Best Regards > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) > > iD8DBQFHxpH2xJBWvpalMpkRAtpzAJsHAkMtjVIHU6dmXTZJdn3mtTWtYwCfRl7x > a9dAr6mnbnORaksfDpJMu8w= > =jiUk > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ Ahh thats useful, on the occasions I have remotely installed freebsd over linux I have always failed due to incorrectly guessing the hd id and as such a wrong fstab, if I know it will always be ad0 and ad1 and so on it makes this much easier. Chris