SATA drive device moving on 8.0 current

Hendrik Bunke bunke at hbxt.org
Mon Feb 2 01:36:54 PST 2009


--On Sun, 1 Feb 2009 17:22, Gavin Atkinson wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Barney Cordoba wrote:
> 
> > I booted 8.0-current on a machine that was running 7 and the SATA drive
> > came up as ad4 instead of ad8 (as it is detected in 7). This is the case
> > was loading GENERIC.
> > 
> > This is going to present a serious problem doing field upgrades as its
> > expected that fstab will be the same. What is the reason for the change and
> > is there any way to make it compatible with device detection in 7?
> 
> I suspect the problem is caused by some changes made in -CURRENT a few months
> ago, which had the potential to change the order that some devices may be
> detected.

I've had the same problem recently after upgrading from
7.1-RELEASE to -stable. The only difference being obvious to me
was the modified driver for the Intel ICH10 SATA controller. 

regards
hendrik

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