On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Bob Hoffman <bob at bobhoffman.com> wrote: > Craig, > > I think you misunderstand. It is just the lettering. The extra sata card > is not going to be booted from. The bios only sets the > boot order, not which drive letter linux is going to assign it. > it is the drive letters that just annoy me and was hoping for an easy > changeable fix. I was surprised anaconda installer > had no option to change them. > > It is like installing windows on your f drive and having c and d as > storage drives...just rubs ya wrong. > > It boots fine from sdc with or without card in it...it is centos > labeling based on how it looks at the hardware. > Apparently an add on sata card comes first in the order linux analyzes > the system. If you are doing raid, once the partitions are set up you will only see /dev/md? device names except in madam commands or when looking at /proc/mdstat. And you can move the drives around later so the actual device names would be different without affecting the md assemblies. I think you are being a little picky.... You could always move the controller cables around, but I'm not sure there is any guarantee that the drives will be detected in the same order every time. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com