Tim wrote:
On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 10:54 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote: > When satisfied with the first drive, I decided to add a 2nd raw drive > to the system, rebooted, I noted that the 2nd drive became /dev/sda, > the first (original) drive became /dev/sdb. I'm going to ask the obvious question: After adding the second drive, and noticing the change, did you try swapping the ports the drives were plugged into? (To make your first drive back into being /dev/sda again.) I saw UUID later in the thread, and that'll help you with Linux, but not GRUB. You'll have to deal with getting the right drive, separately, to begin booting a system.
Yes, I did. I tried all 7 Sata ports and they all behaved the same way. This blew me away. Perhaps Sata ports have no unique position identifier, such as "I am Sata port #1", ... ? I do not know the hardware/software internals as to how Sata ports are scanned and in which order if there is an order at all. I don't know how the BIOS scans ports either but I would bet that if I had a PATA (IDE) drive, it would come first off as /dev/sda (or is it /dev/hda?) long before SATA gets scanned, but don't hold me to this assumption! ;) As for UUID. I found thast tune2fs -u random <device> was the way to place UUID on a partition. I haven't tried it yet but will do so as soon as the VERY slow dd clone completes a 750GB transfer at 3.0 MB/sec rate - it's gonna be a long night. Thanks! Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
