On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 09:27 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2007/12/07 09:54 (GMT+0100) Morten Bjørnsvik apparently typed: > > > My problem is If I leave the esata connected drives on during a reboot, > > they come up as sda,sdb forcing the internals to become sdc,sdd. How can > > this be avoided, > > There may be motherboard BIOS setting(s) to do it. It seems if BIOS were > smart, they would default to external connectors = last found. Are your > external ports on a PCI card? Are your internals actually PATA, being > supported by the OS as SCSI via libata?
I think this is a BIOS thing if it is on the motherboard. Otherwise it is a card BIOS setting. If the SATA controller card has this. > > On redhat we earlier used mount labels, but I've not > > been using it for years. > > AFAIK, all current and recent Linux distros support mount by-label. Fedora > 7-up installation enforces mount by-label. IMO by-label is far superior in > user friendliness to mounting by-UUID or device ID, keeping fstab > comprehensible and more compact. I mount my 10.2 root by-label, but all other > partitions by device name. So far I've only used eSATA for full partition > backups, and so haven't needed to mount any eSATA partitions. In our use of hot swapped SATA disks, there are literally hundreds of them. Labels are not practical. I also tried the serial number of the disk via udev. That works as well. But it was impractical to rely on this in our odd use. So we opted for sensing the drive bay, which fits our setup. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Kapellgränd 7 P.O. Box 4205 SE-102 65 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
