Tim wrote: >>> You, now, have two SATA drives plugged in at the same time? For >>> interest's sake, what happens if you swap their data connectors >>> around? I would have expected something like that to be the >>> solution. Pedro Bezunartea Lopez: > Thanks Tim. Yes, I have both drives plugged in at the same time. I > haven't tried to swap the connectors yet. I wanted to have the new > disk be sda because the old disk is failing and will probably be > replaced soon, so I didn't want to have the new disk changing from sdb > to sda when the bad disk fails. In any case, what would that test > accomplish? it'll probably swap linux, and grub drive names. I can't quite remember how this thread started out, but a second device not being named what you want, or vice versa, commonly happens when you add a drive, or remove one. Plugging them in the other way changes which is the first and second drive, and the device naming. If you're just trying to get things working, that's a simple fix so that you can boot up, then reconfigure.
