The discussion on the previous thread "SCSI device identification and SCSI symlink generation in sg3_utils 1.48" [1], the openSUSE Forum [2], bugzilla [3] has revealed that with one exception, the problems that users encountered had not been caused by the sg3_utils update, but by the almost simultaneous update of the TW kernel to 6.5.4, which changed scsi_mod and sd_mod from built-in to loadable modules. In the course of this discussion, the idea came up to stabilize the ordering of sd devices by loading sd_mod before any SCSI low level drivers, using a softdep. I have implemented this now in [4]. I would be grateful for testing this package on a variety of systems. I already tried a few, and saw no issues. Currently TW only. The expected effect is that the ordering of sd devices stabilizes again (if you test this, please undo manual workarounds that you may have applied so far). On systems with only NVMe hardware (e.g. laptops with M.2 SSDs) where multipath-tools is not installed (if you aren’t using dm-multipath, you can just uninstall it with “zypper rm multipath- tools”), an additional expected effect is that the system would come up without any SCSI drivers loaded (check /proc/modules). If an USB stick or some other SCSI device is added to such a system, SCSI modules should be loaded on demand, and the stick should be mounted as usual. Feedback very welcome. I plan to submit this to factory next week. Regards, Martin [1] https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse.org/thread/Y... [2] https://forums.opensuse.org/t/problem-with-disks-order-after-snapshot-202309... [3] https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1216070 [4] https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mwilck:/suse-module-tools/o...