Re: Linux SATA S.M.A.R.T. and SLEEP?

From: jmerkey
Date: Thu Sep 29 2005 - 14:38:59 EST


Grant Coady wrote:

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 11:53:21 -0600, jmerkey <jmerkey@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



Someone needs to fix SATA drive ordering in the kernel so it matches GRUBs ordering, or perhaps GRUB needs fixing. I have run into


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User-space issue? Four of the last five drives I buy are SATA, I don't see this problem 'cos I use lilo :o)

Cheers



Seems to show up on FC2/3/4 installs on Piix motherboards. The drive parameters reported for /dev/sda, /dev/sdb are inverted based on the BIOS ordering of the SATA devices. It's more a BIOS issues I think. I have noted that IDE doesn't change the ordering, but the current Linux drivers do.

Jeff
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