Re: Unpredictable drive naming with multiple SATA controllers

2008-03-21 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 07:25:57PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mar 18, 9:10 pm, Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps I wasn't clear, I'll try to restate the problem. :) > > We have thirteen drive bays with removable SATA disks in a box used > for backups. The bays are marke

Re: Unpredictable drive naming with multiple SATA controllers

2008-03-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mar 19, 4:40 pm, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had always assumed that the symlinks in /dev/disk/by-path/ worked like > that > ... > If I understand your previous emails correctly then /dev/disk/by-path/ > does not work like that for you. That sounds like a bug of udev and/or > t

Re: Unpredictable drive naming with multiple SATA controllers

2008-03-19 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 19:25:57 -0700, agenkin AT gmail DOT com wrote: [...] > Perhaps I wasn't clear, I'll try to restate the problem. :) > > We have thirteen drive bays with removable SATA disks in a box used > for backups. The bays are marked 1 through 13, and mount to /backup/ > drive01 ..

Re: Unpredictable drive naming with multiple SATA controllers

2008-03-19 Thread Bob McGowan
NN_il_Confusionario wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 07:25:57PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: old disk. The newly inserted disks will have a different UUID, and, should we use UUIDs, the operation will require reconfiguring the host to mount the new drives, which is a hassle. You can use file

Re: Unpredictable drive naming with multiple SATA controllers

2008-03-18 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 07:25:57PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > old disk. The newly inserted disks will have a different UUID, and, > should we use UUIDs, the operation will require reconfiguring the host > to mount the new drives, which is a hassle. You can use filesystem labels, they are e

Re: Unpredictable drive naming with multiple SATA controllers

2008-03-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mar 18, 9:10 pm, Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think he means he wants to map a device node to a device _location_ > not a specific device, which happens by default with ide (ie, hda being > ide primary master). > > using fstab with uuid's would mean that the same physical disk alwa

Re: Unpredictable drive naming with multiple SATA controllers

2008-03-18 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob McGowan wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Mar 18, 4:00 pm, Thierry Chatelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> There are numerous threads on how to fix the problem. Google should >>> be your >>> friend on that one >> >> I've searched a lot. All

Re: Unpredictable drive naming with multiple SATA controllers

2008-03-18 Thread Bob McGowan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 18, 4:00 pm, Thierry Chatelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There are numerous threads on how to fix the problem. Google should be your friend on that one I've searched a lot. All the matches I'm getting are about tying device names to specific *drives* or about s

Re: Unpredictable drive naming with multiple SATA controllers

2008-03-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mar 18, 4:00 pm, Thierry Chatelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are numerous threads on how to fix the problem. Google should be your > friend on that one I've searched a lot. All the matches I'm getting are about tying device names to specific *drives* or about solving boot-time issues.

Re: Unpredictable drive naming with multiple SATA controllers

2008-03-18 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Tuesday 18 March 2008 20:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We have a backup box (running Debian/Etch) with thirteen SATA disks > connected to it: There are numerous threads on how to fix the problem. Google should be your friend on that one Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Unpredictable drive naming with multiple SATA controllers

2008-03-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
We have a backup box (running Debian/Etch) with thirteen SATA disks connected to it: - four to the on-board controller - seven to an 8-port add-on controller - two to a 2-port add-on controller At reboot the Linux kernel inconsistently numbers "sda,b,c,...": it can start with either of these three.