6 Aug
2021
6 Aug
'21
10:34 p.m.
E. Liddell composed on 2021-08-06 15:33 (UTC-0400):
I've never seen an internal drive change its
device node without a hardware
change, but I suppose it would in theory be possible for it to happen if the
system for some reason initialized an external drive attachment point first,
or a drive ahead of it in the initialization order failed so hard that the system
could no longer detect it. Regardless, I would class it as highly unusual
on a system that doesn't have hot-swap drive bays or the like.
It was not unusual, before refinements in kernels and storage drivers made it less
common, on motherboards with both PATA and SATA controllers, to upgrade a kernel
or switch to a different distro, and have the device names of drives on the
disparate controllers flip-flop. Changing the BIOS setting of PATA vs SATA
priority could do the same, so a flip could come out of nowhere because the CMOS
battery died and was changed.
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