Kevin Johnson wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I have 2 ide, which are boot drive and work drive, and 1 scsi  drive
which is much older running with scsi bios 2.20. Since the scsi was the
last installed, I would prefer it to be The Last disk number. The scsi is
used mostly for archives.
>  
> Why is it that some OS's and some utilities, name drives starting with
0,1,2 and some start as 1,2 &3. Is this to placate those who cannot
grasp 0 as a number?
>  
> Anyway, the scsi moves around sometimes it's the first drive and
sometimes it's the last drive.
> How can I ensure that it is always the Last drive regardless of the OS
or utility.
>  
> Any guidance appreciated.
>  
> KevinJ. 
>   
Hi Kevin,

WRT OS/2-eCS, the disk numbering with mixed SCSI/(E)IDE disks is purely 
based on the relative positions in the config.sys of the adapter device 
drivers - e.g. if you have 2 x IDE and 1 x SCSI , then if 
IBM1S506.ADD|Danis506.ADD precedes e.g. AICU160.ADD, then the SCSI disk 
will be the last disk. Otherwise it will be the first disk. Under Linux 
the SCSI disk will be a "sda" with partitions "sda1 ....
sdan", whereas 
the IDE will be "hda/hdb/hdc/hdd" depending upon whether attached as 
master/slave to primary/secondary controller [ignoring SATA channels]. 
In the case of windoze, I can't offer any suggestions.

Although I am a long way behind in reading messages, I didn't notice any 
further responses in the later unread messages.

HTH

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Regards,
Mike

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