On 2018-10-07 00:25, Theodore Driscoll wrote:
Hi
my daily-use machine runs openSuse. To experiment with LFS I added a
second SATA HDD.
Initially the Suse drive was /dev/sda, the new, unpartitioned, drive
/dev/sdb.
But I rebooted once more. Now Suse has swapped the names, so what used
to be /dev/sda is now /dev/sdb and vice-versa. If I reboot again, the
names sometimes swap back, sometimes do not.
Section 2.4, Creating a New Partition, doesn't allow for this
situation - it assumes the drive names are persistent.
Has anyone else encountered this situation, and found a way around it?
Cheers
Ted
Hello Ted,
Is it possible that the first hard drive was in SATA port1 (or however
your motherboard labels them) rather than port0, and when you added the
second drive it was in port0, so when the drives are enumerated by the
system that the port0 drive is now sda, and the port1 drive which you
used all this time is now sdb?
What happens if you swap the SATA cables between the two drives or the
two motherboard SATA ports?
Sincerely,
William Harrington
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