130606 Chris Stankevitz wrote: > Who or what decides to name a hard drive /dev/sda vs /dev/sdb?
You, when you connect up the drives in the box, if you build it ; the manufacturer, if you buy the machine ready-built. If the latter, open the box -- carefully (smile) -- & check the connections inside with the mobo manual. > How does it decide what order to enumerate the drives on my computer? The drive which the mobo calls 'SATA1' wb /dev/sda etc. > When in the boot process does is a disk given a name like "/dev/sda"? That's done by 'udev' based on what BIOS tells it. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
