Problem with random disks mount sequence

Zhukov Pavel gelios at gmail.com
Wed Dec 12 14:09:04 UTC 2007


On Dec 12, 2007 2:11 PM, wwp <subscript at free.fr> wrote:
> Hello Tim,
>
>
> On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:40:55 +1030 Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 09:36 +0100, wwp wrote:
> > > That still doesn't explain why the order of mounting (and of scsi
> > > discovering?) is shuffled
> >
> > I'm sure it was explained somewhere in this thread.  The device names
> > are named in the order that the BIOS discovers them.  If it checks the
> > USB ports first, they get the names first.
>
> In the thread I also said (IIRC!) that this behaviour was randomly
> encountered.. sometimes I get the internal disk mounted as /dev/sda,
> sometimes as /dev/sdc.. and I always boot my USB disks plugged in and
> powered.
>
>
> Regards,
>
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