I've been puzzling over this one for a while now.... not quite sure how or why openSUSE is seeing my hard drives in a different order than the BIOS and the physical connections are laid out. The hardware is like this: Channel 0 Master - EIDE - no connection Channel 0 Slave - EIDE - no connection Channel 1 Master - SATA Drive 1 Channel 1 Slave - SATA Drive 2 Channel 2 Master - SATA Drive 3 Channel 2 Slave - SATA Drive 4 Channel 3 Master - SATA DVD burner Channel 3 Slave - SATA Drive 5 This is how it's physically connected, and in the BIOS, the drive order is the same - ie no fiddling with boot priorities etc. Now, when I fire up an openSUSE install DVD (or the partitioner on an existing install), it sees a totally different harddive order... like this: Drive 3 - sda - data drive Drive 4 - sdb - data drive Drive 5 - sdc - data drive Drive 2 - sdd - existing 11.1 install plus a home partition Drive 1 - sde - new drive Normally, it's not much of an issue what drive Linux is installed on... but I would like to understand why the physical connections are not matching the sda-sde devices... C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org