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Date:      Mon, 11 May 2009 15:34:49 +0100
From:      James Seward <jamesoff@gmail.com>
To:        Jonathan McKeown <j.mckeown@ru.ac.za>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: single SATA disk and yet identified as 'ad4'
Message-ID:  <720051dc0905110734h387d39cbm9ff969336fe9d0fa@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200905111630.23123.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.64.0905111935570.6330@localhost> <200905111630.23123.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za>

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On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Jonathan McKeown <j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> 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 ATA_STATIC_ID" out of your kernel config.

/JMS



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