In watching this thread, I'm reminded of the discussion at the Nov. meeting about some glitches in recent distros, particularly Ubuntu. I've been finding Mint Debian a friendlier choice since an attempt to put Ubuntu (I think 10.10, but may have been 10.04) on an Asus Eee 900 caused a lockup that required removing battery to clear. Seems that some hardware does not find recent Ubuntu's very friendly. JN On 01/19/2011 06:03 AM, Charles Nadeau wrote: > Jeffrey, > > The 750GB disks are all SATA 3Gb/s connected to the motherboard, a Gigabyte > N680SLI-DQ6 (http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=2553#sp). > I never had this kind of problem when I was running Gentoo. > > Thanks! > > Charles > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Jeffrey Monncrieff < > jeffrey [ dot ] moncrieff [ at ] yahoo [ dot ] ca> wrote: > >> What kind of interface are the discs connected to? Is it some kind of >> hardware raid card? >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Brenda J. Butler" <bjb [ at ] linuxbutler [ dot ] ca> >> To: "Charles Nadeau" <charles [ dot ] nadeau [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> >> Cc: linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca >> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 10:00:59 PM >> Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Problem with the changing order of drives >> >> >> Strange that the udev rules aren't working ... >> >> One approach is to debug that. Make sure no statements are causing >> the udev rules you show below to be skipped, and/or move them earlier in >> the sequence of udev rules (to help with finding what's causing them >> to be skipped - if that is what's happening). >> >> Another approach is to use volume names. I don't know offhand how >> to do that or I'd give some pointers right here. My guess is >> you give volume names to the disks (they get written on the disks), >> then use the volume names to mount the drives rather than the >> device names. >> >> bjb >> >> >> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 05:50:58PM -0500, Charles Nadeau wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I had to reinstall linux over the week-end and made the switch from >> Gentoo >>> to Xubuntu 10.10. >>> Since then, everytime the computer reboot,s the order of the drives >> changes >>> making the use of my RAID array very difficult. >>> I tried writing udev rules but they are not followed on boot. >>> >>> charles@ottawa:/etc/udev/rules.d$ cat 80-local.rules >>> SUBSYSTEM=="block", ATTR{ID_SERIAL}=="ST3750640AS_5QD0ZEL6", NAME="sda" >>> SUBSYSTEM=="block", ATTR{ID_SERIAL}=="ST3750330AS_3QK0A55K", NAME="sdb" >>> SUBSYSTEM=="block", ATTR{ID_SERIAL}=="ST3750640AS_3QD1BKH4", NAME="sdc" >>> SUBSYSTEM=="block", ATTR{ID_SERIAL}=="ST3750330AS_3QK08ZAR", NAME="sdd" >>> SUBSYSTEM=="block", ATTR{ID_SERIAL}=="ST31000528AS_6VP053RH", NAME="sde" >>> SUBSYSTEM=="block", ATTR{ID_SERIAL}=="ST3320620AS_6QF1A82N", NAME="sdf" >>> SUBSYSTEM=="block", ATTR{ID_SERIAL}=="ST3750640AS_5QD10GFJ", NAME="sdg" >>> SUBSYSTEM=="block", ATTR{ID_SERIAL}=="ST3750640AS_5QD0ZMT2", NAME="sdh" >>> SUBSYSTEM=="block", ATTR{ID_SERIAL}=="ST3750640AS_5QD0VDLG", NAME="sdi" >>> SUBSYSTEM=="block", ATTR{ID_SERIAL}=="ST3750640AS_3QD0AF55", NAME="sdj" >>> >>> What else can I try? >>> Thanks! >>> >>> Charles >>> >>> -- >>> Charles Nadeau Ph.D. >>> http://charlesnadeau.blogspot.com/ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Linux mailing list >>> Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca >>> http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux >> ---end quoted text--- >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux mailing list >> Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca >> http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux >> >> >> >> > >