Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 11:39:38 -0600 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Steve Franks <bahamasfranks@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: adding disk moves ad0 to ad4 Message-ID: <6201873e1002030939x590b5decs58f1b64cf03fa7e8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <539c60b91002030935m31f66c6ft247f1231ad61656@mail.gmail.com> References: <539c60b91002030935m31f66c6ft247f1231ad61656@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Steve Franks <bahamasfranks@gmail.com>wrote: > 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 > Use glabel, then you can used the same fstab across disk swaps/machinces -- Adam Vande More
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