My motherboard has four SATA ports and one IDE port, recently they were all occupied. Then my wife's hard drive died, and I pulled out one of the IDE drives for her computer. When I booted my computer (Ubuntu 8.04) back up I had some difficulty mounting one of my SATA drives, and eventually figured out that I had been mounting it as device /dev/sdd1, but since I removed that IDE drive it had become /dev/sdc1. Is it common for hard drives to migrate from device to device as the environment changes? I had been under the impression that /dev/sdc was mapped to physical port X, and /dev/sdd was mapped to physical port Y, now I'm wondering if it figures things out as it goes along.
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