How do I force the SATA drive to be /dev/sda when IDE drive is present?

Kevin J. Cummings cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Wed Jun 18 07:17:05 UTC 2008


reikred at gmail.com wrote:
> I have an F7 system that has both a SATA drive and occasionally an IDE
> drive  connected to it. The problem is that when the IDE drive is
> connected, the system will make IDE=/dev/sda and SATA=/dev/sdb, and 
> screw up my boot process.
> 
> Is there a kernel command parameter or other simple method to get
> around this problem?
> 

The kernel assigns SCSI device names in the order it finds them from 
searching the hardware.  That's usually the boot device first.  Check to 
see if you can change the boot order in your BIOS, that usually helps.

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