On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 11:23:06AM +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I'm currently running an etch system, soon to be updated to Lenny. > > I recently installed two identical internal SATA disks and spend a few > days bad-block testing them. They passed. > > They show up as /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. > > As far as I know, these /dev designators are dynamically assigned at boot yes, they are dynamically assign by the driver modules that are loaded at boot time and the driver modules check the pci bus in sequential order each time, so unless you are changing the physical layout of the pci bus on your machine don't worry. Other times to worry when you are talking to san LUN, there might be a change of a LUN timing out. > time. (I've had previous problems with multiple eth devices, solved by > removing the ones I didn't need). > > How can I ensure that the same /dev's are always associated with the same > physical drives? Or am I misunderstanding something here and has the > problem become obsolete? you can use udev rules to find the id of the device, another way is to rely on LABELS or UUID for partitions instead of device names. > > -- hendrik > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > -- "We ought to make the pie higher." - George W. Bush 02/15/2000 South Carolina Republican Debate
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