On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Johan Beisser <j...@caustic.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > With multiple drives, especially for bulky softraid setups, it might get > > overwhelming pretty fast. > > > > The idea is interesting, and especially helpful if the machine was > > previously built and the drives ordered differently in a different OS or > > BIOS configuration, changes in hardware RAID or drive controller > > manipulation in the BIOS, or the drives were installed in a different > > machine. > > I don't see why it's hard to shell out. > > ! > # dmesg | grep [hs]d[0-9] > # exit > If you're skilled enough to have the working interfaces and know, from experience, how to dig it up manually, you can. That would certainly not be lost. I was thinking it could be useful for some of the odd setups I've encountered. When I swap hard drives to another host, it's not always clear that I've preserved hard drive ordering. If you've never swapped IDE controller ports accidentally when replacing a motherboard, then you've not done a lot of hardware rebuilding.
