>>>> This breakage was announced :-).
>>>
>>>Besides, it is not even a breakage. It finally got _unbroken_. :-)
>>
>>It is breakage, and should be fixed.
>
>It isn't breakage when everybody else assigns identities to ATA disks
>sequentially, irespective of how much other gunk (Ie: CD, Tape) is 
>present on the busses.

Linux doesn't.  It IDE cdroms to IDE drive minor numbers, e.g.,

        hda = 1st controller, IDE drive
        hdb = 1st controller, IDE cdrom
        hdc = 2nd controller, IDE drive

The sequencing of controllers isn't unique, so the breakage doesn't
even work around the problem of mapping BIOS drive numbers to FreeBSD
device names except in simple cases.

Bruce


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