SATA drive device moving on 8.0 current

[Andrey V. Elsukov]

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?

Probably your system now have (or lost) support for some of your ATA/SATA controller.

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WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov