adding disk moves ad0 to ad4

2010-02-03 Thread Steve Franks
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,

Re: adding disk moves ad0 to ad4

2010-02-03 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Steve Franks bahamasfra...@gmail.comwrote: 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

Re: adding disk moves ad0 to ad4

2010-02-03 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 10:35:48 -0700, Steve Franks bahamasfra...@gmail.com 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

Re: adding disk moves ad0 to ad4

2010-02-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/02/2010 17:35, 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,

Re: adding disk moves ad0 to ad4

2010-02-03 Thread Steve Franks
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 10:35:48 -0700, Steve Franks bahamasfra...@gmail.com wrote: Just curious, having read the handbook section talking about freebsd going straight to the hardware and skipping the bios for disk numbering, why

Re: adding disk moves ad0 to ad4

2010-02-03 Thread Arthur Chance
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