Re: FreeBSD 7.0 Questions

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 02:39:35PM +0000, Chris wrote:[color=blue]
> On 28/02/2008, Krassimir Slavchev <krassi@bulinfo.net> wrote:[color=green]
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> > Jeremy Chadwick wrote:[color=darkred]
> > > 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.[/color][/color][/color]
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> > > Thus, never expect the adX devices to "start with 0".[/color]
> >
> > 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![/color][/color]
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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.[/color]

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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