[gentoo-user] Who/what names hard drives /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc

[Chris Stankevitz]

Hello,

Who or what decides to name a hard drive /dev/sda vs /dev/sdb?

How does it decide what order to enumerate the drives on my computer?

When in the boot process does is a disk given a name like "/dev/sda"?

Thank you,

Chris