Re: second controller: what will my discs be called, and does it matter?

2006-07-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
Dexter Filmore wrote: Currently I have 4 discs on a 4 channel sata controller which does its job quite well for 20 bucks. Now, if I wanted to grow the array I'd probably go for another one of these. How can I tell if the discs on the new controller will become sd[e-h] or if they'll be the

Re: second controller: what will my discs be called, and does it matter?

2006-07-17 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Montag, 17. Juli 2006 20:28 schrieb Bill Davidsen: Next question: assembling by UUID, does that matter at all? No. There's the beauty of it. That's what I needed to hear. (And while talking UUID - can I safely migrate to a udev-kernel? Someone on this list recently ran into trouble

Re: second controller: what will my discs be called, and does it matter?

2006-07-07 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 08:12:14PM +0200, Dexter Filmore wrote: How can I tell if the discs on the new controller will become sd[e-h] or if they'll be the new a-d and push the existing ones back? If they are the same type (or more precisely, if they use the same driver), then their order on

Re: second controller: what will my discs be called, and does it matter?

2006-07-06 Thread John Stoffel
Dexter Currently I have 4 discs on a 4 channel sata controller which Dexter does its job quite well for 20 bucks. Now, if I wanted to Dexter grow the array I'd probably go for another one of these. So, which SATA controller are you using? I'm thinking my next box will go SATA, but I'm still

Re: second controller: what will my discs be called, and does it matter?

2006-07-06 Thread Neil Brown
On Thursday July 6, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently I have 4 discs on a 4 channel sata controller which does its job quite well for 20 bucks. Now, if I wanted to grow the array I'd probably go for another one of these. How can I tell if the discs on the new controller will become