[Wylug-help] Disaster recovery: I really need it

[shaun laughey]

On Sunday 25 February 2007 12:26:00 John Hodrien wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, shaun laughey wrote:
> > I had 5 SATA disks and for some reason Fedora swapped some of the disks
> > round from how Suse saw them. From that day on I've used labels.
>
> Ordering of devices will come down to the order that the kernel modules are
> loaded, and I guess that there's no correct order.  I'd have a sneaking
> suspicion you're using more than one controller for those 5 disks.  A lot
> of motherboards provide a sis raid controller for a couple of sata ports
> and use the nvidia one for the other four.
>
> jh

Spot on John. Even down to the hardware.


Shaun.