Hi list, Here is some background for my question: I have a machine with two sata disks, one connected to the onboard sata controller, the other to an add-on ESATA board plugged into the PCIX slot. My puzzle: When I boot a kernel from the 2.6.28 series, the onboard controller's disk gets dubbed /dev/sdb, and the ESATA disk is /dev/sda. When I boot the same machine with a more recent kernel like Linus's 2.6.30 series, the device names are reversed. Is this change in behavior expected based on recent kernel patches? Thanks. -- 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