On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 02:39:35PM +0000, Chris wrote: > On 28/02/2008, Krassimir Slavchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:15:30PM -0800, Doug Hardie wrote: > > >> I have just installed 7.0 on some new hardware. Have never tried earlier > > >> versions. There are a couple of unexpected items that I do not > > >> understand. > > >> > > >> 2. I have 2 SATA drives in the system. The first is recognized as ad10 > > >> and the second as ad12. I expected to see ad0 and ad1. ... > > > Thus, never expect the adX devices to "start with 0". > > > > If you want adX devices to "start with 0" just remove 'options > > ATA_STATIC_ID' from the kernel config file but be very carefully if you > > change hardware! ... > Ahh thats useful, on the occasions I have remotely installed freebsd > over linux I have always failed due to incorrectly guessing the hd id > and as such a wrong fstab, if I know it will always be ad0 and ad1 and > so on it makes this much easier.
And if you ever add a second drive, and it happens to be detected first, expect a lot of work getting things working again. There are good reasons for doing it this way, though you do get a choice. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] President - I and I Computing * http://www.iandicomputing.com/ Custom programming, network design, systems and network consulting services _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"