Re: SCSI - SATA device name conflict
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 11:44:47AM +1200, Greg Trounson wrote:
> Kevin Mark wrote:
> >On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 10:45:28AM +1200, Greg Trounson wrote:
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>Is there a way to rebuild the initrd to tell it to load sata drivers
> >>first, or some flag to pass to the kernel to force the first hard disk to
> >>sda?
> >>
> >instead of using /dev/sda or /dev/sde use UUID notation.
>
> Thanks for the idea. Unfortunately that notation is only good if the
> hardware does not change. If we dd that disk to another one it won't work.
> Also a number of system tools I believe are hard-coded to use explicit
> device nodes, which is why I need sda to be, well, sda.
Then there are 2 more: by-id and disk labels.
ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/
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