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Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:11:07 -0600
From: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@genband.com>
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To: Wallak <wallak@free.fr>
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Subject: Re: Linix-3.6.3 sda, sdb drives in reverse order (with a USB 2.0
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On 10/25/2012 04:49 PM, Wallak wrote:
> I've a very annoying behavior with the linux-3.6.x kernels release, and
> a monolithic configuration. The USB 2.0 drives are mapped first with
> /dev/sda, /dev/sdb... devices, and than the SATA AHCI drives come after.
> This is out of order with the BIOS configuration and breaks a program
> like lilo. This is also annoying when we use a static partition mapping.
>
> Linux-3.5 works fine. Where this bug come from ? Is this a patch to get
> the old, and classical behavior ?

As you have discovered it's fragile to rely on /dev/sd* names since a 
BIOS update, kernel update, or motherboard replacement could conceivably 
cause them to change.

Better to use something like partition labels that you control and that 
don't change.

Chris
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