single SATA disk and yet identified as 'ad4'

[Stefan Lambrev]

You may want to become familiar with:

#
# The following options are valid on the ATA driver:
#
# ATA_STATIC_ID:        controller numbering is static ie depends on  
location
#                       else the device numbers are dynamically  
allocated.

options         ATA_STATIC_ID

Long time ago FreeBSD people decided that it's very annoying when you  
plug ata CD or another HDD
and then your ad1 (which is ad4) becomes ad2, and makes your OS un- 
bootable without manual intervention.

Today we have geom labels, but still ATA_STATIC_ID is something I  
really miss on every linux ..

P.S. -current removed.

On May 11, 2009, at 10:38 PM, Saifi Khan wrote:

> Hi all:
>
> The system has just one SATA disk and yet bootloader process
> identified it as 'ad4'. Ideally, it should be ad1.
>
> Here is the PCI information
>
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS,  
> 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/ 
> GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
> 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME,  
> 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High  
> Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
> 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI  
> Express Port 1 (rev 01)
> 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI  
> Express Port 3 (rev 01)
> 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB  
> UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
> 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB  
> UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
> 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB  
> UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
> 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2  
> EHCI Controller (rev 01)
> 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e1)
> 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC  
> Interface Bridge (rev 01)
> 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE  
> Controller (rev 01)
> 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7  
> Family) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 01)
> 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus  
> Controller (rev 01)
> 06:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan  
> mini-PCI (rev 01)
> 08:08.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.  
> RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
>
> How does the labelling logic work ?
>
>
> thanks
> Saifi.
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Best Wishes,
Stefan Lambrev
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