Saifi Khan wrote:
The system has just one SATA disk and yet bootloader process
identified it as 'ad4'. Ideally, it should be ad1.
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 AHC
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Jonathan McKeown wrote:
> Your BIOS is reporting two IDE interfaces, each of which could have a master
> and slave disk drive, so ad0-3 are reserved for those four drives, meaning
> SATA starts at ad4.
>
> Some BIOSes let you change this.
Or you can take "option A
By default, ATA disks are assigned numbers based on the ATA controller
they are on, and whether they are primary or secondary on the
controller. For example, the primary disk on the first controller would
be ad0, the secondary disk on the first controller would be ad1, the
primary disk on the s
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 04:30:23PM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote:
> On Monday 11 May 2009 21:38:50 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.
> [snip]
> > How does the labelling logic work
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 ag
On Monday 11 May 2009 21:38:50 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.
[snip]
> How does the labelling logic work ?
FreeBSD reserves numbers for devices that aren't currently connected, so tha
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 cont
