On 07/31/2016 11:51 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
People,
I know that it is possible to refer to drives by various naming conventions:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Persistent_block_device_naming
but it is annoying that the "SCSI" drive (SATA and USB) order in which their corresponding device nodes are added is arbitrary - is there some way of forcing the order to what I want? ie I have the boot disk as /dev/sda of course but I want to specify the drive letter of the other physical SATA and USB drives . .
The SATA drives should be consistent, the order is according to the controller which normally matches the numbering on the motherboard. USB drives are dependent on the order that they get enumerated. It should be consistent according to the hub ports, but not necessarily. If it matters, you really should be using either LABEL or UUID for mounting purposes.