Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 09:34:18 +0100
From: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: Marc Perkel <marc@perkel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SATA SCSI device numbering - I'm confuzed! - Help!
Message-ID: <20051221093418.1e15e5f2@werewolf.auna.net>
In-Reply-To: <43A901C8.4090706@perkel.com>
References: <43A901C8.4090706@perkel.com>
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On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 23:18:32 -0800, Marc Perkel <marc@perkel.com> wrote:

> OK - this really has me stumped. I have a asus A8N-SLI premium=20
> motherboard. It has 4 SATA ports on it. The ports are numbered 1 to 4.=20
> So somehow I asumed that port 1 would be /dev/sda ... port 4 would be=20
> /dev/sdd - but when I boot up the order is very different and doesn't=20
> make a lot of sense. How can a person predict what drives will get what=20
> device names. Sure would be handy to be able to know that.
>=20

Plz, post this info:

lspci
dmesg

to see what is in you mobo and how does kernel detect it.
That four sata ports can be several (2?) separate PCI devices and it all de=
pends
on the order the kernel detects them.

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