SATA internal disk and external drive - device changes

[Karl Larsen]

Ed Jabbour wrote:
> Internal SATA drive designated as sdax.  I attached an external hard drive 
> enclosure via USB.  Instantly recognized as sdb.  I formatted the external 
> and successfully transferred files back and forth.  However, on a reboot with 
> the external left on, I have the internal as sdbx and the external as sdc and 
> sdc1.  Turned the external off and rebooted and I get sda and sdb.  Any 
> advice, hints, pointers, etc. appreciated.  Relevant fstab entry:
>
> /dev/sdb1 /mnt/external ext3 user,atime,noauto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
>
> Lastly, the external is one partition; I thought so, anyway.  Why sdb and 
> sdb1?  sdb won't mount - wrong fs type, bad superblock stuff.  Did not format 
> correctly?
>
>   
    You are being fooled by an old BIOS that is not sure about SATA hard 
drives and the USB drive can mess with what it says. I have a IDE and 
SATA hard drives and they change positions under the BIOS system I have. 
I have had no end of trouble :-)

Karl


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