On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 11:19:43AM +0200, Quentin Garnier wrote:
> On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 10:16:39AM +0200, Pavel Cahyna wrote:
> > On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 02:54:07AM +0200, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote:
> > > piixide0 at pci0 dev 7 function 1
> > > piixide0: Intel 82371AB IDE controller (PIIX4) (rev. 0x01)
> > > piixide0: bus-master DMA support present
> > > piixide0: primary channel wired to compatibility mode
> > > piixide0: primary channel ignored (disabled)
> > > piixide0: secondary channel wired to compatibility mode
> > > piixide0: secondary channel interrupting at irq 15
> > > atabus0 at piixide0 channel 1
> > 
> > > hptide0 at pci0 dev 19 function 0
> > > hptide0: Triones/Highpoint HPT370 IDE Controller
> > > hptide0: bus-master DMA support present
> > > hptide0: primary channel wired to native-PCI mode
> > > hptide0: using irq 10 for native-PCI interrupt
> > > atabus1 at hptide0 channel 0
> > > hptide0: secondary channel wired to native-PCI mode
> > > atabus2 at hptide0 channel 1
> > 
> > So, you have several ATA busses (channels). And the hptide ones have
> > higher numbers, so all devices on them will have higher numbers.
> > 
> > Add a line
> > atabus0 at hptide0 channel 0
> > 
> > to your kernel config file and recompile. This should work and should be
> > enough.
> 
> No;  that will just wire down atabus0, not wd0.  If you only fix
> atabus0, you'll indeed get an atabus1 attaching to piixide0, but you
> will still have a wd0 attaching to that atabus1.

Ah. I was thinking that then the enumeration of wd* would start at the
lowest - numbered atabus. Sorry.

Adding wd0 at atabus0 drive 0 should be _really_ enough, no?

> What amuses me greatly is this thread is how Linux mostly lacks that
> ability of wiring this down.  I'm surprised the initial poster got so
> much attention with his issue, considering Linux has the exact same
> issue with SCSI drives (which include SATA drives, due to the way Linux
> handles those...).  Also, RedHat Linux has a "solution" for that, using
> file-system labels.  Of course, it uses the same labels for all
> installations, so that mixing drives from two different RedHat
> installations leads to interesting results.

Linux can mount filesystems by UUID, even if probably very few people use
this.

Pavel