No, I'm not using an expander. The 9211-8i is connected to a Supermicro SAS113TQ rev 1.1 backplane which has 8 ports. Kind regards, Caspar Smit 2011/5/13 Arne Jansen <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > On 13.05.2011 12:41, Caspar Smit wrote: > > That is something I really don't like. > > > > After more checking I noticed the /dev/disk/by-path doesn't have any > > links for the disks and their slots anymore. > > > 2011/5/13 Arne Jansen <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >> On 13.05.2011 12:34, Caspar Smit wrote: > >>> I tried with Debian Squeeze with the latest backports kernel 2.6.38, > >>> which has mpt2sas version 07.100.00.00 > >>> and now the disks are ordered this way: > >>> > >>> /dev/sdb = slot 3 > >>> /dev/sdc = slot 2 > >>> /dev/sdd = slot 1 > >>> /dev/sde = slot 0 > >>> /dev/sdf = slot 7 > >>> /dev/sdg = slot 6 > >>> /dev/sdh = slot 5 > >>> /dev/sdi = slot 4 > >> > >> I see something similar here, and, what's worse, the order may very from > >> boot to boot. > > > It might also be a problem of the expander, in that it reports the disk > in this order. Are you using an expander? > -- 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