A8N-Sli Deluxe, SATA and disk/drive order in OS ?

[bos]

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Hello.

I have a Q regarding "disk/drive order" in OS.

I have one WD Raptor 74 GB, attached to the first nForce4 SATA slot.

I have two additional 80 GB Seagate drives, attached to the (nForce4)
third, and fourth SATA slots.

My "problem" is this :

In Win XP Pro SP2, the WD Raptor appears as drive no 3 in Disk
management, the other two as drive no 1 & 2 (with C:, D: and so on the
right drive).

In Knoppix 3.8, the drives get listed in the same strange order,
the SLOT1 WD Raptor as SDC and the other two as SDA and SDB...

What is going on here ?
Have I missed something ?
What happends to my "soon to be Gentoo" on the raptor the day when I
add a new disk ?
Is it going to move to SDD ?

Bios reports: (I think it is on version 1006)
First SATA device = WD Raptor
Third and Fourth SATA = Seagate ...

Would be very nice if someone could explain this to me
//Bos

 

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Bos wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I have a Q regarding "disk/drive order" in OS.
>
> I have one WD Raptor 74 GB, attached to the first nForce4 SATA slot.
>
> I have two additional 80 GB Seagate drives, attached to the (nForce4)
> third, and fourth SATA slots.
>
> My "problem" is this :
>
> In Win XP Pro SP2, the WD Raptor appears as drive no 3 in Disk
> management, the other two as drive no 1 & 2 (with C:, D: and so on the
> right drive).
>
> In Knoppix 3.8, the drives get listed in the same strange order,
> the SLOT1 WD Raptor as SDC and the other two as SDA and SDB...
>
> What is going on here ?
> Have I missed something ?
> What happends to my "soon to be Gentoo" on the raptor the day when I
> add a new disk ?
> Is it going to move to SDD ?
>
> Bios reports: (I think it is on version 1006)
> First SATA device = WD Raptor
> Third and Fourth SATA = Seagate ...
>
> Would be very nice if someone could explain this to me
> //Bos

I believe that essentially the two halves of the nForce4 SATA controller
get recognized as two separate devices, which could show up in either
order. This shouldn't really affect anything..

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