Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 13:13:34 +0100 (CET) From: Christian Baer <christian.baer@uni-dortmund.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Strange HDD order Message-ID: <fo4b5e$1phk$5@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net>
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Greetings programs! I have a computer here with 10 HDDs. Four of them are connected to the southbridge of the mainboard. The other 6 are connected to two Promise SATAII 300 TX4. Four of the drives are connected to the first controller (making it 'full') the other two connected to the second. To make the device names predictable I was very careful how I connected them. The four drives connected to the southbridge are in the right order (this also means they have the device names ad0 to ad3). The drives connected to the other controllers are a different story. The two controllers cooperate well and identify themselves as one controller only. So I get only one message showing all the drives. The drives are in this order in the BIOS message: D 0 WDC WD3200SD-01KNB0 08.05J08 (ad4) D 1 WDC WD3200SD-01KNB0 08.05J08 (ad6) D 2 SAMSUNG HD501LJ CR100-11 (ad8) D 3 SAMSUNG HD501LJ CR100-11 (ad10) D 4 Seagate ST3500320AS SD04 (ad12) D 5 Seagate ST3500320AS SD04 (ad14) The device in brackets is the one I'd expect to get. Instead, I get this: ad4: 476940MB <SAMSUNG HD501LJ CR100-11> at ata2-master SATA300 ad6: 305245MB <WDC WD3200SD-01KNB0 08.05J08> at ata3-master SATA150 ad8: 476940MB <SAMSUNG HD501LJ CR100-11> at ata4-master SATA300 ad10: 305245MB <WDC WD3200SD-01KNB0 08.05J08> at ata5-master SATA150 ad14: 476940MB <Seagate ST3500320AS SD04> at ata7-master SATA150 ad18: 476940MB <Seagate ST3500320AS SD04> at ata9-master SATA150 Where did I go wrong? Regards, Chris
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