<p>Not always; it depends on a multitude of factors, as well as whether or not udev was programmed with appropriate rules by the distributors or SA to do things sanely. The Linux kernel stopped guaranteeing deterministic device enumeration years ago.</p>
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Sent from my phone... a G2 running CM7 nightlies!</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 16, 2011 11:23 AM, "Jim Kinney" <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> it will be the second drive in the chain. Sata ports are numbered on the<br>
> mobo so what is sda will be the lowest numbered connected sata port thus sdb<br>> will be the second lowest sata port.<br>> <br>> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Gene Poole <<a href="mailto:gene.poole@macys.com">gene.poole@macys.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> <br>>> All,<br>>><br>>> I'm running CentOS 5.3 on a box that has 4 - 1 TB hard drives in 2 - Raid 1<br>>> configurations. It's telling me that one of the drives has gone bad. When I<br>
>> built the raid 1, I built it where the paired drives is sda | sdc and sdb |<br>>> sdd. The messages tell me that ata2 is bad and I get messages saying sdb1,<br>>> and sdb8 is bad.<br>>><br>>> My question is - How do I determine what drive on what port should be<br>
>> replaced?<br>>><br>>> Thanks,<br>>> Gene Poole<br>>><br>>> _______________________________________________<br>>> Ale mailing list<br>>> <a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org">Ale@ale.org</a><br>
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>><br>>><br>> <br>> <br>> -- <br>> -- <br>> James P. Kinney III<br>> <br>> As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to<br>> consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they<br>
> please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.<br>> - *2011 Noam Chomsky*<br></div>