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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