Harddrives renaming themselves?

[Eadwine Rose]

Well.. this is weird.

I was fiddling with conky a bit where the temp for the harddrive had gone to 0, and then saw in the systray that the temp for my harddrive (installed this to /dev/sda) was also set to 0C

So.. I enter in the terminal: hddtemp /dev/sda
How big my amazement when I read this: /dev/sda: PLEXTOR DVDR PX-820A : S.M.A.R.T. not available

What??

So.. open up gparted and sure enough.. sda is now sdb, and what used to be sdb is now sdc.

How on earth could this happen?

I upgraded all things upgradable on the 10th of Feb (including the wheezy base files and such), couldn't upgrade vlc so asked and told to do dist-upgrade which fixed that.

Outside of those two things I haven't done anything to the system that I know of. I figured I'd report this issue cause it doesn't look like something it should do.

I can reinstall this system, no biggie at all.. I just wonder, what the heck happened to cause it and how to prevent this sort of thing in the future?

[Eadwine Rose]

To add: I just rebooted and the namings are back to what they should be.

[lucky9]

No external drives? Even a USB FlashDrive?

[Eadwine Rose]

Nope. Nothing of the sort.

It is settled again, the reboot sorted it. I just wonder what the cause was. I doubt we will be able to find out though.

[lucky9]

You're famous for having crooked volts.

[Eadwine Rose]

True! Hahaha.

Just had another one, see community fun lol

[Eadwine Rose]

Happened again, just now and earlier. After a reboot the harddrives have renamed themselves again and sda is now gone. sdb is now the internal harddrive, sdc is again the external usb harddrive.

How can we go about diagnosing this one.. or .. if it is just me I don't mind cause I know what to do (reboot again haha).

I am currently in the "faulty harddrive" boot.. syslog says this:

syslog.txt

[BitJam]

@ER, it would be much easier for everyone if you uploaded the log file instead of putting it into the body of your posts. I *think* you just need to a ".txt" to the end of the filename to make it uploadable.

[Eadwine Rose]

Ah yeah.. didn't think of that. Brain is a bit fried today haha.

Will do that and edit the post above. Thanks

[JBoman]

Eadwine Rose, How many drives both internal and external do you have installed and how many usb devices and are any of them hard drives?. Might help to post your partitioning tables too and which drives have OS's installed to them. I cannot help but looks like that info will be helpful for troubleshooting.