You could try using uuids and partition labels which are persistent no matter how drive is connected On 4/21/08, Gerry Reno <greno@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ok, I tried to install either F8 or F7 on this machine. Both of those could > only see two of the SATA controllers. So at least F9 found all the SATA > controllers. If the F9 anaconda installer would just quit crashing with > unhandled exception... > > The issue of the changing device names has me concerned. If SATA acts like > SCSI then are the hdd device names going to be changing all the time when I > plug in my usbkey during boot? Also, I have drive utilities that store > things like partition tables in files like hda1.part. But with SATA, > /dev/sda, may next time be /dev/sdc. So my utilities would not be able to > know it the partition was actually for the correct drive device. So how are > we to manage things like partition table dumps so that they would be loaded > back onto the correct device? > > > Gerry > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > -- http://scwlab.com -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
