PCI device numbering whine

B-Con · 2008-05-25 02:24:30

Anyone else use PCI expansion slots for their hard drives? I have a hard drive (IDE) connected through a PCI card. My primary hard drive is also IDE and connected straight into the motherboard. I have another IDE storage drive.

Back in my Ubuntu days, my PCI data drive and normal storage drive would (literally) swap every few reboots, which was quite annoying. After coming to Arch, I noticed that my PCI drive was consistantly sda, primary hdd was sdb, and storage drive was sdc. Always, which was nice. I thought it must've been some Ubuntu/Debian-specific patch that was causing my trouble.

I got a bit of a blast from the past today after I upgraded to kernel 2.6.25. Upon reboot, I got a kernel panic because my root file sytem wasn't found. I thought it'd been a faulty install (for other reasons) and lamented my multiple re-installation of the kernel, which changed my fallback image. So I booted my laptop, plugged my primary hdd in via USB, and used pacman to install the kernel (with --root) to the drive. I plugged it back into my desktop, but got nothing.

Frustrated, I started searching the forums, then, had a flashback. On a hunch, I rebooted and changed my Grub entry to pass the parameter root=/dev/sda2 instead of /dev/sdb2. Here I am.

Reminds me of the old joke...

Being a Linux user is sort of like living in a house inhabited by a large family of carpenters and architects. Every morning when you wake up, the house is a little different. Maybe there is a new turret, or some walls have moved. Or perhaps someone has temporarily removed the floor under your bed.

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#1 2008-05-25 02:24:30

PCI device numbering whine

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