[olug] Drive letter assignments

[Cooper Vertz]

This may be out of date but...

At boot, the USB problem can be fixed by rearranging your modprobe.conf:

alias usb-controller uhci-hcd
alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix

Put the scsi_hostadapter first (and make a new initrd file) and you may stop
booting to USB.


On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 11:42 PM, Kevin D. Snodgrass
<kdsnodgrass at yahoo.com>wrote:

> --- On Sun, 4/10/11, Obi-Wan <obiwan at jedi.com> wrote:
> > While I'm on the hard drive topic, it
> > drives me crazy that every time
> > I reboot my machine that contains five physical drives (one
> > PATA, four
> > SATA), the sdX drive letters get scrambled.  I label
> > every partition,
> > so this doesn't affect drive mounting, but it plays havoc
> > with my
> > MRTG setup because SNMP sorts its entries by drive letter
> > (-ish).
> >
> > Is there any way around this?  I only reboot once
> > every few months to
> > catch kernel updates, but it's still annoying.
>
> I have the same problem, but with external USB drives.  Really torques me
> off that a USB drive gets /dev/sda most of the time.
>
> Best I can tell you is to look into udev rules.  Or maybe device-mapper.
>  Or...
>
> It's all become more "MicroSofty", where the powers that be decide your
> system will work a certain way and it is very convoluted for you to figure
> out how to fix their stupidity and make it work The Right Way (TM).
>
> Freakin' mess...
>
> Kevin D. Snodgrass
>
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