amen. anything that helps us get away from the kernels arbitrary numbering of devices to identify disks is a good thing.
dlg On 28/04/2011, at 10:20 AM, Nick Holland wrote: > On 04/27/11 08:27, Kent Watsen wrote: >>> Maybe you should tell us what happened and what you were expecting. >> >> I saw the check-in which stated that it was being turned on to see what >> response there is, which is all I'm doing... >> >> When installing on a system only having IDE-based drives, I was >> expecting to not be prompted, since I don't believe it's easy for the >> boot drive change location. But I realize now that some flash card >> adapters present themselves as an IDE device, which makes them as >> portable as my USB pen drive. > > Your imagination doesn't go very far :) > > ever add an IDE or SATA card to a machine that was working Just Fine > before? It could be a lot of "fun". Even with DUIDs, it will take a > bit of adjusting of drives and/or boot ROMs sometimes. > > I used to manage a machine which archived e-mail, it would fill its > available disk space every few months, and we'd take one (of many) sets > of disks out and put another in. While superficially an easy task, the > shuffling of cables for the three PCI SATA cards to the six drive packs > was annoying and time consuming to get right...and we did it that way > because it was a LOT easier than using the two onboard SATA ports plus > two off-board, since nothing numbered the way we wished. Would have > been nice to have had this feature then. > > Nick.
