Re: FreeBSD 7.0 Questions

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 02:39:35PM +0000, Chris wrote:
On 28/02/2008, Krassimir Slavchev <krassi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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!
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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

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