On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 13:41 -0400, Gerry Reno wrote: > We have a new machine which has SATA. This is the first machine we have > had with SATA. SATA and these changing device locations are giving me a > headache. None of our disk device tools work with SATA. For instance > we have a tool that will save all the MBR's and partition tables off to > files such as 'hda.mbr' and 'hda.part'. With SATA this does not work > because what was 'sda' during this boot may be 'sdc' on the next boot. > So I need to find out if there is some best practice guide for how to > rewrite our tools so that they can support SATA. We use LVM over RAID > on all our drives and all our RAID and LVM tools appear to still work. > It is only when dealing with the low-level disk devices themselves that > we have problems. Can someone give me some suggestions as to how to > manage things when using SATA? > > Regards, > Gerry > Use disk UUIDs instead of device names. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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