On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Linux-Fan <ma_sys...@web.de> wrote: > On 09/28/2013 04:54 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > I only want to mention that this never happened on my machine within the > > last >= 10 years and I turn my PC often on and off. How often does it > > switch on your machine? Does anybody experience that sda became sdb > > after rebooting? I don't claim that this can't happen. > > I have a similar situation here: The device names never change -- sda is > always the same disk etc. > > This may be true in some setups/motherboards.
Others will have different experiences, e.g. when a motherboard has two or more disk controllers (e.g. one for SATA RAID and one for "regular" SATA), or you have a controller in a PCIe slot and use disks on either the controller or the motherboard, or you have several controllers in PCIe slots. -- Jan
