Hi Everyone,

 

I have two SATA drives mounted in an "Icydock" USB-3 enclosure set to JBOD.  Every time I boot, the disk changes ID, forcing me to reset the config and add the drives back again.  /dev/disk/by-id entries are shown below.  It's the hex string after the word RANDOM that changes on boot.

 

My guess is the controller is adding this it but I see no way of changing it. 

 

Thanks in advance for any advice!

 

Cache drive, this works fine

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  9 Aug  1 18:44 ata-SSD2SC240G1CS1754D117-820_PNY45150000927381497 -> ../../sdd

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug  1 18:44 ata-SSD2SC240G1CS1754D117-820_PNY45150000927381497-part1 -> ../../sdd1

 

Boot USB

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  9 Aug  1 18:44 usb-SanDisk_Ultra_Fit_4C531146590413116110-0:0 -> ../../sdc

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug  1 18:44 usb-SanDisk_Ultra_Fit_4C531146590413116110-0:0-part1 -> ../../sdc1

 

Now the two hard drives, the bolded hex is what changes.  From what I've read it's probably the controller ID but I'm not positive.

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  9 Aug  1 18:44 usb-WDC_WD50_01FZWX-00ZHUA0_RANDOM__C8C4668BE706-0:0 -> ../../sda

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug  1 18:44 usb-WDC_WD50_01FZWX-00ZHUA0_RANDOM__C8C4668BE706-0:0-part1 -> ../../sda1

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  9 Aug  1 18:44 usb-WDC_WD60_01FZWX-00A2VA0_RANDOM__C8C4668BE706-0:1 -> ../../sdb

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug  1 18:44 usb-WDC_WD60_01FZWX-00A2VA0_RANDOM__C8C4668BE706-0:1-part1 -> ../../sdb1[/code][/code]

Use disk by label instead?

Great idea, although there doesn't seem to be a obvious way how.