From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 3 17:39:38 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B64B1065679 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 2010 17:39:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pz0-f184.google.com (mail-pz0-f184.google.com [209.85.222.184]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FDAB8FC1E for ; Wed, 3 Feb 2010 17:39:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pz0-f184.google.com with SMTP id 14so278232pzk.3 for ; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:39:38 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=p/nhmU6bHwXoc+319dXZxW0pNIx0Plqx0ToaADQTMjk=; b=r5feoahKMuO1KtTTtmyHIF0sFAPgd/8HDjSRK8l2cS5UuE5pJmGMFxMZY8movB4dM0 w5GhgSU570nj2Cx/iolKhDD8bxPNM3amjkh9LxY1DQ/mxE0XbRSVYbRMBwdhF5N+gIlM V365L5omZFyXcIvrZHrFaF3C6P44aNjnm1KXc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=gOFKFLpOrWq7ybAxPywhHt1i4ZX/kjl9JymYjdhOP+zN5uo9u0rr2MIVbSd6tNqjzG lLwjgOEJOVeDJIBzR12Zzd77w6JIGKd1//wRSho+QziI33nlAO+nlnVPr7wWLkyQYlMe nC+1aPnipjDgYdY1rJf0tq6Eg2kC2fxLdo9jo= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.6.19 with SMTP id 19mr5231801wff.131.1265218778072; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:39:38 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <539c60b91002030935m31f66c6ft247f1231ad61656@mail.gmail.com> References: <539c60b91002030935m31f66c6ft247f1231ad61656@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 11:39:38 -0600 Message-ID: <6201873e1002030939x590b5decs58f1b64cf03fa7e8@mail.gmail.com> From: Adam Vande More To: Steve Franks Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: adding disk moves ad0 to ad4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:39:38 -0000 On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Steve Franks 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