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Date:      Sat, 11 Dec 1999 11:10:20 +0100
From:      Dieter Rothacker <didi@Xterminator.STUDFB.UniBw-Muenchen.de>
To:        Michael Kennett <mike@laurasia.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!
Message-ID:  <pyJSOKMPdliWfW9ot2La2KkdmCqv@4ax.com>
In-Reply-To: <199912110621.OAA20899@laurasia.com.au>
References:  <199912110553.VAA00494@mass.cdrom.com> <199912110621.OAA20899@laurasia.com.au>

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On Sat, 11 Dec 1999 14:21:25 +0800 (WST), Michael Kennett wrote:

>Note that wd1 is not present.  This caused a mild hickup when rebooting the
>new kernel, since the new ata controller assigned the labels ad0 and ad1 to
>the drives.  It was not possible to boot into multiuser mode without changing
>the /etc/fstab file to rename the /dev/wd2* entries to /dev/ad1*. That was
>easy to fix, however for a newbie it might cause problems.  I mention it now,
>since the upgrade from 3.x might need special handling of this case (?).

You should use the kernel option
"options	ATA_STATIC_ID"
for such cases. At least it works for me :-)
-- 
Dieter Rothacker


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