Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 10:35:48 -0700 From: Steve Franks <bahamasfranks@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: adding disk moves ad0 to ad4 Message-ID: <539c60b91002030935m31f66c6ft247f1231ad61656@mail.gmail.com>
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Just curious, having read the handbook section talking about freebsd going straight to the hardware and skipping the bios for disk numbering, why then, if I stick a sata disk in 'sata0' on the motherboard, does it come up as ad0, but if I add a second disk in 'sata1' or 'pata0', on the next boot, I have no ad0, but ad4 and ad6? This seems to be the case with every mobo I've owned in the last 2 years from a variety of mfr's. Is there a way around this? I don't care what it comes out as, as long as it stays put... Since I have the only fbsd system at work, I tend to format alot of funky drives for people, and it gets anoying having to swap fstab's every time... Steve
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