BIOS problem?

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Sat Oct 20 02:48:12 UTC 2007


Karl Larsen wrote:
>    I have two hard drives in my computer. I have this F7 on a IDE hard 
> drive and while on this drive it is /dev/sda. No problem now but the 
> second drive is a Serial Cable type and it shows up as /dev/sdf.  No 
> problem with that either.
> 
>    It all falls apart when I use the Serial Cable hard drive. It becomes 
> /dev/sda and the IDE becomes /dev/sdb.

What's installed on the SATA drive?



> 
>    I think the BIOS is doing this. Does anyone else have a similar problem?

I think it's not the BIOS. Linux generally ignores the BIOS for disks.



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John

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