From: Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Who/what names hard drives /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 05:43:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130607094309.GA864@ca.inter.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPi0psvtcWe8ak-H0ULnXSJxXHAm6k1+ejF-PpDMeYX7qJCskQ@mail.gmail.com>
130606 Chris Stankevitz wrote:
> Who or what decides to name a hard drive /dev/sda vs /dev/sdb?
You, when you connect up the drives in the box, if you build it ;
the manufacturer, if you buy the machine ready-built.
If the latter, open the box -- carefully (smile) --
& check the connections inside with the mobo manual.
> How does it decide what order to enumerate the drives on my computer?
The drive which the mobo calls 'SATA1' wb /dev/sda etc.
> When in the boot process does is a disk given a name like "/dev/sda"?
That's done by 'udev' based on what BIOS tells it.
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2013-06-07 4:16 [gentoo-user] Who/what names hard drives /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc Chris Stankevitz
2013-06-07 5:31 ` Fast Turtle
2013-06-07 9:43 ` Philip Webb [this message]
2013-06-07 16:32 ` Chris Stankevitz
2013-06-07 16:45 ` staticsafe
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2013-06-07 5:58 Thomas Mueller
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