Re: SATA drive device moving on 8.0 current

From: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor_at_gsoft.com.au>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:18:59 +1030
On Thursday 29 January 2009 03:48:11 Barney Cordoba wrote:
> I booted 8.0-current on a machine that was running 7 and the SATA drive
> came up as ad4 instead of ad8 (as it is detected in 7). This is the case
> was loading GENERIC.
>
> This is going to present a serious problem doing field upgrades as its
> expected that fstab will be the same. What is the reason for the change and
> is there any way to make it compatible with device detection in 7?

I don't know how you can change it back, but you can use glabel and tunefs -L 
and then modify /etc/fstab to use /dev/ufs/foo.

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