https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=210572
Bug ID: 210572
Summary: Installer does not fully identify discs in
multiple-disc system
Product: Base System
Version: 10.3-STABLE
Hardware: amd64
OS: Any
Status: New
Severity: Affects Some People
Priority: ---
Component: misc
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
This is a significant human-factors issue.
Installing 10.3 to a system with 4 motherboard SATA ports and a re-flashed
M1015 8-port SAS controller card, all fully populated with disks, I realised
that the disc identifier offered is the *model number*, which is not at all
useful when there are several discs of the same model installed. Since the
bios and the os don't necessarily agree on the device ordering, I had no way of
reliably picking out my intended install disc. I had to shut down, disconnect
the data cables from every disc but the ones to the dvd drive and the install
disc, and then restart.
If the installer showed the model number, size, AND the existing partitions,
the problem I had would not have arisen.
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