24 Apr
2014
24 Apr
'14
5:59 a.m.
Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> writes:
it's also not at all uncommon for motherboards to have multiple different kinds of SATA (or even SAS) ports, requiring different drivers - e.g. sata_mv, sata_nv, ahci. the order that these drivers will load is *not* guaranteed by anything. in fact, it's explicitly NOT guaranteed which is why the advice is to use UUIDs or LABELs rather than device names.
All systems I've seen with >4 SATA ports work this way. They have an ICH9 or whatever southbridge with 2 or 4 SATA ports, and then a random crappy sata chipset from promise or whatever for rest.