On 1/28/2010 4:05 PM, Stephen Harris wrote:
>
> As can be seen, different parts of detection appear to be interleaved
> (floppy detection message, sdb detection message - disk in a USB disk
> enclosure!) so I can't seem to rely on ordering of messages in dmesg to
> accurately determine which device has been assigned what ID.
>
> dmesg really gets messy when you have lots of disks!
Not to mention what happens if you hot-swap them and re-connect in a
different order. I've sometimes made raid-1 devices on the disks even
if I don't intend to add the partner just so auto-detect will always
connect them up to the right place even if some are disconnected or moved.
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Les Mikesell
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