From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: linux 2.6.9 controller order reordered.  was: [Re: linux 2.6.9
 still having network code problems]
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 02:07:12 -0800
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Christopher Chan <cchan@outblaze.com> wrote:
>
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Christopher Chan <cchan@outblaze.com> wrote:
> > 
> >>DOH. the kernel swapped the controller order on me...fstab entries 
> >> referred to the wrong device names...
> > 
> > 
> > Eh?  That shouldn't happen.  Could you please generate a full report of
> > this, send it to the appropriate list and cc myself?
> > 
> > Although if that's the 2.6.9 behaviour it's probably a bit late to fix it
> > up.
> > 
> 
> Hardware: Tyan mb with Serverworks chipset and onboard Promise controller.
> 	The two disks on promise channel since Serverworks does not support ATA100
> 
> FC2 Installation will recognise the disks as hde and hdg
> fstab is accordingly setup as so for swap (everything else are md)
> 
> Changing to a 2.6.9 kernel that has the promise driver compiled in will 
> change the disks to hda and hdc.

Could you send the dmesg output so we can see the probing activity?