On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 12:25:41AM -0600, Greg Mitchell wrote: > I could see SATA and SCSI having problems coexisting, since Linux seems > to treat SATA and SCSI similarly. At least in Gentoo, my SATA drive > comes up as /dev/sd0.
Why would they have problems coexisting? You can mix USB and FireWire storage devices with SCSI just fine (in the past, I've plugged a FireWire DVD burner into my server (which uses a mix of SCSI and IDE storage) to make backups), and they (like SATA) go through the SCSI subsystem as well. SATA should be no different than USB or FireWire in this regard. If you want to control the order in which devices are enumerated, compile into your kernel only the driver for the interface used by your boot drive and compile the other drivers as modules. By loading the drivers for fixed storage (SCSI, IDE, or SATA) before the drivers for hot-pluggable storage (USB or FireWire), you can make sure the allocations of /dev/[hs]d* nodes don't shift around from one boot to the next. _/_ / v \ Scott Alfter (remove the obvious to send mail) (IIGS( http://alfter.us/ Top-posting! \_^_/ rm -rf /bin/laden >What's the most annoying thing on Usenet?
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