Alfredo Ferrari wrote:
Hi
I have the following problem:
a) a laptop with a SATA drive
b) a modular bay in the same laptop where I can fit a DVD, a battery
or a PATA drive
If the PATA drive is there Fedora 7 recognizes it as /dev/sda and the
SATA one as /dev/sdb. Without the PATA one, the SATA one is obviously
/dev/sda.
I would like to find a way to force the SATA one to be /dev/sda
always: using labels is only mitigating the issue of the (main) disk
flipping name, since some partitions are mounted via autofs which does
not
accept labels, and others are Windows ones which again cannot be
mounted by labels at least to my knowledge.
In short, is there any mean (kernel parameter?) to force the SATA
drive come first? BTW on Fedora Core 6 this issue was never present.
Thanks a lot
Alfredo Ferrari
I think your talking about a BIOS setting. Mine changes for strange
reasons. I too have a IDE and a SATA, when I am using the IDE it is
/dev/sda and the SATA is /dev/sdf. But if the IDE is not being used then
the SATA becomes /dev/sda. My BIOS is nuts :-)
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