From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932300AbVLUHSe (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Dec 2005 02:18:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932301AbVLUHSe (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Dec 2005 02:18:34 -0500 Received: from 8.ctyme.com ([69.50.231.8]:21121 "EHLO darwin.ctyme.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932300AbVLUHSd (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Dec 2005 02:18:33 -0500 Message-ID: <43A901C8.4090706@perkel.com> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 23:18:32 -0800 From: Marc Perkel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: SATA SCSI device numbering - I'm confuzed! - Help! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spamfilter-host: darwin.ctyme.com - http://www.junkemailfilter.com" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org OK - this really has me stumped. I have a asus A8N-SLI premium motherboard. It has 4 SATA ports on it. The ports are numbered 1 to 4. So somehow I asumed that port 1 would be /dev/sda ... port 4 would be /dev/sdd - but when I boot up the order is very different and doesn't make a lot of sense. How can a person predict what drives will get what device names. Sure would be handy to be able to know that. HELP! Thanks in advance. My server is down - struggling with this issue.