[ale] SATA disk naming

[Greg Freemyer]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:18 PM, Chris Fowler
<cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> Here is something that happened to me strange today.
>
> We have a server we are using to run VMware Server 2.0.  It has
> 2 250GB SATA drives used as a RAID1 array.  These devices are sda
> and sdb.
>
> I noticed an ad at MicroCenter for a 1TB SATA drive @ $129.  We took
> the ad to Fry's in Alpharetta and they matched the priced.  I installed
> the drive in the 3rd SATA port on the MB.  I booted Linux and for some
> odd reason Linux made the 1TB drive sdb and pused the old sdb to sdc.
> Not a real problem because the md driver was able to figure this out.  I
> thought maybe the vendor who build the server plugged the cables in wrong
> but I checked and everything looked good.
>
> Is there a reason this happened?  Can I force a drive to a device
> name by using a command line argument while booting Linux?
>

I think you have to set it via udev rules.  I've never looked into
that black magic. Good Luck.

Greg
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