*From:* Tim via users <[email protected]>
*Sent:* Monday, 6 October 2025 at 15:44 UTC+11
*To:* Community support for Fedora users <[email protected]>
*Cc:* Tim <[email protected]>
*Subject:* RE: Recently I killed my system
Tim:
you might want to do this: Open up the case and ensure that your
main drive is plugged into the first SATA port, and other drives are
connected to higher number ports. Check the motherboard manual if the
ports don't have obvious labelling on them.
Most motherboards apply a ranking to their ports, and you always want
your boot drive to be /dev/sda (for instance) and the next drive to be
/dev/sdb (for example).
Stephen Morris:
I have an asus motherboard where either the motherboard doesn't
apply a ranking to the ports or Fedora ignores the ranking. I have
an SSD (which has Windows drive C, Fedora Boot and Ubuntu Boot on
it) and 4 3TB hdd's, with the SSD plugged into port 1 on the
motherboard and the hdd's plugged into ports 3 - 6. When Fedora
starts up it sees the SSD as /dev/sdc, two of the hdd's as /dev/sda
and /dev/sdb and the other two as /dev/sdd and /dev/sde.
Is this something you want to solve, or just a point of interest?
Sorry, it was just a comment on something I have never been able to understand,
as to why Linux seems to work this way. I had the same issue on a previous
motherboard as well and just assumed it was Linux doing its own thing.
regards,
Steve
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