[SLL] /dev/sd names not in motherboard order

[Paul Franz]

On Mon, March 2, 2009 7:22 am, Mathew D. Watson wrote:
> My motherboard has sata drive connectors SATA1, SATA2, SATA3, ...
>
> With one drive installed on any connector, its device name is /dev/sda
> when linux (ubuntu 8.10) runs.
>
> With one drive at SATA1 and another drive on any other connector, SATA1
> becomes /dev/sda and the other becomes /dev/sdb.
>
> With one drive at each of SATA1, SATA2, and SATA3, their /dev/sd names
> become sda, sdc, and sdb respectively.
>              /
> out of order
>
> Finally, the motherboard connectors are physically positioned in the
> following order. SATA1, SATA3, SATA2, SATA4.

Looks like they are labeled incorrectly. Seems to me the order should be marked

SATA1, SATA2, SATA3, SATA4

Wouldn't that solve the problem?

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