[ale] SATA disk naming

[David A. De Graaf]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:23:18PM -0500, Jim Kinney wrote:
> The drive ordering is based  more on the device ordering from the pci bus
> scan and sata init. Check what cat /proc/scsi/scsi says. I bet the new sdb
> even though it's in a sata#3 socket has a lower lun than sata#2.
> 
> And yes, this is why the transition to UUID is happening for distros like
> Fedora. I think Ubuntu also does drives by UUID as well. For some reason I
> don't find UUID=c2a3c3bd-414c-4c30-a83c-38e69551808a easier to read than
> /dev/sda

Incidentally, the rather obscurely (to me) named command  'blkid'  will 
display all your block IDs.

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