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Re: [Sid] ahci: disk order



	Hi.

On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 10:03:01PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Vi, 24 iul 20, 21:58:26, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > On Vi, 24 iul 20, 19:39:21, Grzesiek Sójka wrote:
> > > Hi there,
> > > 
> > > I noticed that SATA disks appear in random order. More precisely, I have two
> > > disks, HDD and SSD. Sometimes HDD=/dev/sda, SSD=/dev/sdb and sometimes
> > > HDD=/dev/sdb, SSD=/dev/sda. Is there any way to fix the disk order?
> > 
> > Not that I know of.
> > 
> > > I would
> > > like the disk connected to port 1 to be sda, disk connected to port 2 to be
> > > sdb and so on (like it was in the past)
> > 
> > It might be possible with some special udev rules,
> 
> Correction: probably not, since those names are assigned by the kernel.

A correction over the correction ;) :

- it's possible, it's called RENAME= in udev rules.
- it's unneeded in about every case, given that wonderful /dev/disk
  directory.
- and if it is needed for some reason, one's always better to use SYMLINK
  over the RENAME.

Reco


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