On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Paul Bransford wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 22:06 -0400, Paul Bransford wrote:
>> Hi all!
>>
>> On boot, I seem to randomly get either of these /dev/ assignments:
>>
>> HD0: /dev/hda
>> CDROM0: /dev/hdc
>> CDROM1: /dev/hdd
>>
>> -or-
>>
>> HD0: /dev/hde
>> CDROM0: /dev/hdg
>> cdrom1: /dev/hdh
>>
>> ... there seems to be no rhyme or reason for the floppiness.
[snip]
>> Can anyone point me in the right direction?
> Hrm, I think I may have found the source of the wierdness...
>
> My board has a second SATA controller for the eSata ports on the back. I
> don't use (and don't forsee using) those, so disabling that
> controller /should/ stop the 'musical block nodes'?
>
> Is there a way to figure out which controller a given block device
> belongs to? Otherwise, I get to follow traces on the board or start
> looking up chip specsheets and probing the connectors. I would rather
> stay away from that...
You could try disabling one controller (the one you don't want active) and
see what shows up.
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