On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 11:53:21 -0600, jmerkey <jmerkey@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: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.
Someone needs to fix SATA drive ordering in the kernel so it matches GRUBs ordering, or perhaps GRUB needs fixing. I have run into^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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