Re: Harddrive sorting

On Thu, Aug 27, 2026 at 10:37 AM Hans <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I have a question. In my computer are several SATA drives. First one with
> Debian installed and with grub, is connected to Port 0 of the SATA controller,
> second one got Windows and is on SATA 1, and 3 harddrives more are connected
> to SATA ports 2-4.
>
> When ever I boot, the harddrives are not booted in the wanted order (a timing
> problem case), sio that the Debian drive is /dev/sdb and Windows is /dev/sda,
> but I want /dev/sda = Linux and /dev/sdb = Windows.
>
> Whilst there si no problem with the mountpoints, as I ca use UUID in /etc/
> fstab, I would like to know, if it is possible, to force Debian, to see the
> drives in the order, they are hardwired.
>
> I suppose, this poroblem is well known, but I found no solution. Maybe there
> is none?
>
> In my mind came the idea, of using udev rules, but I heard of this only in
> relationship with assigning network devices (when you have more than one
> ethernet card and want to assign them correctly to eth0, eth1 and so on).
>
> If there is no known solution, then just tell me. It is harmless, as
> everything is working well here.

Have a look at udev for consistent naming of hard drives.  Also see
<https://wiki.debian.org/Persistent_disk_names> and
<https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Persistent_block_device_naming>.

Jeff