Freddie Cash <fjwc...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 5:38 AM, Oliver Fromme <o...@lurza.secnetix.de> > wrote: > > Remove "options ATA_STATIC_ID" from your kernel config > > before building the new kernel and rebooting. Then your > > first disk will be ad0, no matter what controller and > > channel it is connected to. Be sure to update your > > /etc/fstab file. > > Problem with doing that (no ATA_STATIC_ID) is that if you change the > order that your PCI devices are enumerated, you will change the order > in which your disks are probed, and all your numbers change again. :) > And there's an option for this in every BIOS I've worked with. Plus, > moving addon controllers from one slot to another will also re-number > your devices.
He wrote that it is a rented server with just one drive. I don't see how the drive number could ever change under these circustances. So removing ATA_STATIC_ID is really the easiest solution. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "The last good thing written in C was Franz Schubert's Symphony number 9." -- Erwin Dieterich _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
