Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 13:13:10 +0100 (CET) From: Cejka Rudolf <cejkar@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org (freebsd-current@freebsd.org) Cc: sos@freebsd.dk Subject: Re: ATAPI and ATAPI_STATIC with the new ATA* driver? Message-ID: <199903031213.NAA23816@kazi.dcse.fee.vutbr.cz>
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>>>> >The only thing that bit me was that I used wd0 and wd2 with the older >>>> >driver, whereas the newer driver automatically decided to use ad0 and >>>> >ad1. This is "expected" behaviour, but it's something for other weenies >>>> >to watch out for. :-) >>>> >>>> This breakage was announced :-). >>> >>>Besides, it is not even a breakage. It finally got _unbroken_. :-) >> >>It is breakage, and should be fixed. > >It isn't breakage when everybody else assigns identities to ATA disks >sequentially, irespective of how much other gunk (Ie: CD, Tape) is >present on the busses. From my point of view - it is breakage. And I'm afraid to use new ATA driver. Why? Because sometimes I'm booting my FreeBSD box with/without one additional drive. With old driver I knew exact wd* numbering from positions on the busses. How can I determine ad* numbering now? How can I ensure stable number for other drives and another stable number for additional "portable" drive? It's really frustrating if I add new drive (anywhere on the busses) and other drives change their numbers - it's good base for big troubles (infinite changing /etc/fstab and so on). Or is there any solution with new ATA driver? What was bad with old static drive numbering? --=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-- Rudolf Cejka (cejkar@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz; http://www.fee.vutbr.cz/~cejkar) Technical University of Brno, Faculty of El. Engineering and Comp. Science Bozetechova 2, 612 66 Brno, Czech Republic To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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