On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 23:22 +0200, Sergey Kononenko wrote: > Hello, > > I have server with motherboard Supermicro X7DBR-3 (AIC-9410 onboard). > And there are three SATA disks in following order: > 1st drive bay: WD800AAJS-60 > 2nd drive bay: WD2500YS-01S > 3rd drive bay: WD2500YS-01S > in BIOS they listed in the same order. > > But after I've loaded linux (2.6.23.14 and 2.6.24 tested) I had > WD800AAJS-60 named as sdc, and two WD2500YS-01S as sda and sdb. > Moreover then i've booted second time with same kernel and settings > names for WD2500YS-01S swapped. Disk which had name sda become sdb and > vice versa. I've noticed that through disk's serial numbers, because > models are same. I'm afraid this reordering of sdX is pretty much a fact of life on hotplug storage busses, which SAS/SATA is. The way around it is to use udev and mount by id or uuid to keep stable device names. James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html