Any known external HD enclosures that work w/Rockstor?

[phillxnet (Philip Guyton)]

@jrmclaugh Re:

@phillxnet

One thing I wondered out-aloud here on the forum in one of the reports was if the drives were awarded udev identifiable ‘ports’ or the like according to their position in the enclosure.

Here is that ‘wondering’

USB Disks with no Serials

@Brett_Abela Thanks for the info. From: We see each of the 3 drives in the Orico enclosure has a by-id name, which is part of the problem sorted (no serial devices get no by-id name at all), but what we now need to know is if those names are assigned on a first come first served basis, which may change from one boot to the next, or as I am hoping, on a bay/enclosure-slot basis. Can you see if you can establish this? Ie you have 2 different models of drive there and given the enclosure rather u…

and:

@phillxnet

But apparently not.

was from @outicnz discouraging report on that front:

@outicnz

To answer your question on whether the “0:0” or “0:1” is assigned by the bay of the drive. Sadly not. The last digit sequentially increases for each drive detected regardless of the bay that it is located in.

Just for context given your interest in this area currently.