Barracuda XT, Barracuda, Barracuda Green, DiamondMax and other desktop SATA and IDE drives

[deaddiejazz]

I own a couple of seagate hard drives, and including two 7200.111tb's. And while they are decent harddrives, whenever I use a program or look at them though the bios, they both show up as ST21000340A, which makes figuring out which harddrive is which quite a bit of fun. It's not impossible, but it is rather annoying. So I was wondering if there was any way of making it so that it was easier to tell these disks apart. Am I just going to have to memorize the sequence that they are listed in my motherboard? Because sometimes I take them out for whatever reason, and then the disk order changes.

[everrest]

Your SATA ports should be labeIed SATA0, SATA1... on the motherboard.  I would recommend using diffrent colored cables or labeling the ends so you know whick drive is listed first. Is there an O/S involved?  The bios only looks at the model #.

[deaddiejazz]

so in other words, if I keep track of which port is plugged into where, I can figure out, purely by drive order, which harddrive is what?

Hrm, if it's of any assistance, I'm currently running Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala and my motherboard is GA-MA770-US3. And from what I've experienced, it seems as if my motherboard just randomly picks the hard drive order every time a new one is plugged in. I'll play switchery with my sata ports and see what happens.

[Cantbecanit]

Or you can call the boot order and set which one you want to always boot 1st, then all you need to do is if you want the other drive is hit the correct F key and scroll the one you wish to boot from.