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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: [Cooker] usb devices and SATA disks jumping around. KDE
From:       FACORAT Fabrice <facorat.fabrice () laposte ! net>
Date:       2004-10-31 16:58:17
Message-ID: 1099241898.31139.1.camel () admin3 ! fiventis-rouen ! fr
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Le dimanche 31 octobre 2004 à 00:12 +0200, Johan Ferner a écrit :
> Hello people!
> 
> I've got USB devices and a SATA disk making my scsi device names
> (/dev/sd*) jump all over the place. This is experiences from a recent
> 10.1 official install.
> 
> Summary:
> Device assignments at installation time should be static and not changed
> after reboot.
> Someone has to stop sd* assignments from jumping around all over the
> place when new devices are connected/disconnected. Especially with SATA
> disks that are as internal and permanently mounted as IDE drives. It's
> my /home we're talking about here :).

this is a bad interaction between hotplug and sata detection.

an udev rule may help or putting the sata module name
in /etc/modprobe.preload may help too


> The magically appearing automount entries are causing me stability
> problems with KDE. How do I turn that off?



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