SATA drive device moving on 8.0 current

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2009/1/28 Barney Cordoba <barney_cordoba at yahoo.com>:
> 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?
>
> Barney
>

I encountered this too after updating current.. close to November
(do not remember exact date when it was changed).

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