Re: Which disk is ata4?

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Thursday 2012-08-30 17:22, Borislav Petkov wrote:

>On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 08:17:13AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> $ dmesg |grep ST3000DM001-9YN166
>> [    1.064910] ata5.00: ATA-8: ST3000DM001-9YN166, CC4B, max UDMA/133
>> [    1.064926] ata3.00: ATA-8: ST3000DM001-9YN166, CC4B, max UDMA/133
>> [    1.064986] ata2.00: ATA-8: ST3000DM001-9YN166, CC4B, max UDMA/133
>> [    1.065012] ata4.00: ATA-8: ST3000DM001-9YN166, CC4B, max UDMA/133
>> [    1.235753] ata7.00: ATA-8: ST3000DM001-9YN166, CC4B, max UDMA/133
>> [    1.727000] ata8.00: ATA-8: ST3000DM001-9YN166, CC4B, max UDMA/133
>
>Shouldn't the SATA ports have actually numbers on the motherboard. And
>if so, ata4 should be the 4th port in the nomenclature... Then it is
>only about following the cable :).

That is not reliable, especially when extra PCI cards come into play.
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