Problem with random disks mount sequence

[Zhukov Pavel]

On Dec 12, 2007 11:36 AM, wwp <subscript at free.fr> wrote:
> Hello Tim,
>
>
> On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:24:38 +1030 Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
> > Mikkel:
> > >> were you booting with the USB drives plugged in?
> >
> > wwp:
> > > Yes, as usually - this has never been a problem w/ FC5, /dev/sda was
> > > always the internal disk.
> >
> > I, too, dislike the drive assignment shuffling.  I really think that hda
> > ought to have been kept for IDE, sda for SCSI, and we should have used
> > some form of /dev/usb for USB.  That way, you'd have clear and
> > unambiguous ways to address the hardware, where you expect to find it.
> > And you also have volume labelling for addressing some volume by name,
> > no matter where or how it's attached.
> >
> > If you boot with your USB drives connected, but never boot *from* the
> > USB ports, you could try altering your BIOS booting arrangements, so
> > that it doesn't include the USB ports, or they're fallback rather than
> > early choices.  You'd expect, this way, that they're looked at later on,
> > and the other drive gets the first designator (/dev/sda).
>
> Sure! That still doesn't explain why the order of mounting (and of scsi
> discovering?) is shuffled - something not deterministic that sounds a
> bit weird when it's question of mounting / ;-). Well, I can live w/ all
> the possible workarounds (mounting by name, hal rules, play w/ BIOS
> boot order, etc.). Thanks for your help, Tim.
>
>
> Regards,
>
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