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130606 Chris Stankevitz wrote: |
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> Who or what decides to name a hard drive /dev/sda vs /dev/sdb? |
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You, when you connect up the drives in the box, if you build it ; |
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the manufacturer, if you buy the machine ready-built. |
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If the latter, open the box -- carefully (smile) -- |
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& check the connections inside with the mobo manual. |
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> How does it decide what order to enumerate the drives on my computer? |
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The drive which the mobo calls 'SATA1' wb /dev/sda etc. |
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> When in the boot process does is a disk given a name like "/dev/sda"? |
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That's done by 'udev' based on what BIOS tells it. |
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