Strange HDD order

[Christian Baer]

On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 14:03:33 +0100 Erik Trulsson wrote:

>> D 0 WDC WD3200SD-01KNB0 08.05J08 (ad4)
>> D 1 WDC WD3200SD-01KNB0 08.05J08 (ad6)
>> D 2 SAMSUNG HD501LJ CR100-11     (ad8)
>> D 3 SAMSUNG HD501LJ CR100-11     (ad10)
>> D 4 Seagate ST3500320AS SD04     (ad12)
>> D 5 Seagate ST3500320AS SD04     (ad14)
>> 
>> The device in brackets is the one I'd expect to get. Instead, I get this:
>> 
>> ad4: 476940MB <SAMSUNG HD501LJ CR100-11> at ata2-master SATA300
>> ad6: 305245MB <WDC WD3200SD-01KNB0 08.05J08> at ata3-master SATA150
>> ad8: 476940MB <SAMSUNG HD501LJ CR100-11> at ata4-master SATA300
>> ad10: 305245MB <WDC WD3200SD-01KNB0 08.05J08> at ata5-master SATA150
>> ad14: 476940MB <Seagate ST3500320AS SD04> at ata7-master SATA150
>> ad18: 476940MB <Seagate ST3500320AS SD04> at ata9-master SATA150
>
> How disks ars numbered do depend on which ports on which controller they
> are attached to.  You want to use the lowest-numbered ports on the Promise
> controllers.  Which ports that is when both controllers identify as a single
> controller is another question.  From what you show it looks like all the
> odd-numbered ports are on one controller and all the even-numbered ports are
> on the other.

Do you mean physically or logically? Physically the first four drives in
the top list (the two WDCs and the two Samsungs) are connected to the
first controller. The two Seagates are connected to the second.

> Try experimenting by changing which disk is connected to which port and see
> if you can get the behaviour you want.

I don't really want or nead any behaviour in particular. This is just a
matter of what's in the fstab. I was more wondering how this could be and
if this order (and thus the device names) will stay constant or if the OS
could get funny ideas after a csup and change this again, which would
certainly mess up my directory tree.

I was also wondering about the "gap" there is in the device names. The
first controller should get ad4,6,8 and 10. But then, the second should
get 12 and not 14. What happened to 12?

Regards,
Chris