From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 30 15:46:12 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2FF2106572E for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:46:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from richardtector@thekeelecentre.com) Received: from mx0.thekeelecentre.com (mx0.thekeelecentre.com [IPv6:2001:470:1f09:16f:2::3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D0158FC19 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:46:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from richardtector@thekeelecentre.com) Received: from localhost (filter.mx0.thekeelecentre.com [217.206.238.165]) by mx0.thekeelecentre.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A94645048; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:46:11 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at thekeelecentre.com Received: from mx0.thekeelecentre.com ([217.206.238.167]) by localhost (filter.mx0.thekeelecentre.com [217.206.238.165]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ZKr4wcwv8CrR; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:46:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.0.2.50] (daffy.tector.org.uk [82.71.32.9]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx0.thekeelecentre.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C937C45020; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:46:07 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <498320B1.40503@thekeelecentre.com> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:45:53 +0000 From: Richard Tector User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: barney_cordoba@yahoo.com References: <234885.44369.qm@web63903.mail.re1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <234885.44369.qm@web63903.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA drive device moving on 8.0 current X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:46:13 -0000 Barney Cordoba wrote: > > > --- On Thu, 1/29/09, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: > >> From: Andrey V. Elsukov >> 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