On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:35 AM, 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 come up as ad0, but if I add a second disk in > 'sata1' or 'pata0', on the next boot, I have no ad0, but ad4 and ad6? > This seems to be the case with every mobo I've owned in the last 2 > years from a variety of mfr's. Is there a way around this? I don't > care what it comes out as, as long as it stays put... Since I have > the only fbsd system at work, I tend to format alot of funky drives > for people, and it gets anoying having to swap fstab's every time... > > Steve > Use glabel, then you can used the same fstab across disk swaps/machinces -- Adam Vande More _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
