ad3 turns to ad1 after kernel update

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Tuesday 13 January 2004 17:17, Jozef Babjak wrote:
> I have one CD-ROM and two hard disk which is connected:
>
>   PRIMARY MASTER: HD Western Digital Caviar 40GB (this holds system)
>    PRIMARY SLAVE: none
> SECONDARY MASTER: CD-RW PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W5224A
>  SECONDARY SLAVE: HD Western Digital Caviar 6.4GB (backup files)
>
> The smaller disk was /dev/ad3 before, but after the kernel update it turns
> to /dev/ad1. Why? (When I boot a GENERIC kernel now, the disk is /dev/ad3
> back.)

Did you comment or uncomment the ATA_STATIC_ID option?

This will cause ATA controller numbers to move around..

The output of dmesg before and after (if possible) would be useful too.

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