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Date:      Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:45:53 +0000
From:      Richard Tector <richardtector@thekeelecentre.com>
To:        barney_cordoba@yahoo.com
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SATA drive device moving on 8.0 current
Message-ID:  <498320B1.40503@thekeelecentre.com>
In-Reply-To: <234885.44369.qm@web63903.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
References:  <234885.44369.qm@web63903.mail.re1.yahoo.com>

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Barney Cordoba wrote:
> 
> 
> --- On Thu, 1/29/09, Andrey V. Elsukov <bu7cher@yandex.ru> wrote:
> 
>> From: Andrey V. Elsukov <bu7cher@yandex.ru>
>> Subject: Re: SATA drive device moving on 8.0 current
>> To: barney_cordoba@yahoo.com
>> Cc: current@freebsd.org
>> Date: Thursday, January 29, 2009, 12:20 AM
>> Barney Cordoba wrote:
>>> I booted 8.0-current on a machine that was running 7
>> and the SATA drive
>>> came up as ad4 instead of ad8 (as it is detected in
>> 7). This is the case
>>> was loading GENERIC.
>>>
>>> This is going to present a serious problem doing field
>> upgrades as its expected that fstab will be the same. What
>> is the reason for the change and
>>> is there any way to make it compatible with device
>> detection in 7?
>>
>> Probably your system now have (or lost) support for some of
>> your ATA/SATA controller.
> 
> Theres only 1 controller with 4 ports, so it was probably something that
> was fixed. We were never quite sure why it started at different indexes
> on different machines with similar architecture.
> 
> Barney

If you could post a dmesg for both 7 and -current, that would be useful.

Richard



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